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words, and the problem of the tongue is still unsolved, unless we 

 agree, as I now incline, with the conclusion of Waitz,^ that it was 

 merely a corrupt dialect of the widely extended Quechua stock. 



The evidence collected a third of a century ago by Vicente G. 

 Quesada points strongly in this direction.^ The Quechua was then 

 still spoken in the valleys of Catamarca and around Santiago del 

 Estero, Salta and Jujuy. Seven leagues from the city of Salta was 

 still pointed out the " great walls of the Inca," the remains of the 

 Inca huasi, '' the house of the Inca," about which in 1658 Acarete 

 du Biscay recorded the legend : "In the valley of Calchaqui was 

 the house of the last Incas of Peru, which was called the White 

 House ; and there was a great deal of treasure there which the 

 natives kept as a mark of their antient grandeur."^ 



While it is possible that at the Conquest some relics of an earlier 

 tongue remained, that generally spoken was Quechua. This was 

 said in so many words of the neighborhood of Cordova, in 1583, 

 by the Licentiate Cepeda, ** La gente de esta tierra hablan una 

 lengua que llaman Comechingona, y otra Zanavirona, aunque los 

 mas que sirven y entran y van hablando en la lengua general de 

 Piru."^ 



Other Unidentified Tribes. 



There remain a number of tribes mentioned as populous and 

 important by the early writers, of some of whose idioms grammars 

 and dictionaries were constructed, whom we cannot with certainty 

 assign to the stocks I have mentioned. 



Thus, Father del Techo in his list of the Chaco tribes as known in 

 1628, names the Taimvice, who once occupied one hundred and 

 eighty-eight villages; the Teutce, and the Agotce} We have no 

 knowledge that the grammars of various of these tribes prepared by 

 Father Caspar Osorius (mentioned by Techo) have been preserved.^ 



^ Anthropologie der Naturvdlker, Bd. iv, p. 380. 



2 See his article, " Apuntes sobre el Origen de la lengua quichua en Santiago 

 del Estero," printed in his volume, Estudios Historicos, Buenos Aires, 1863. 



^ Acarete du Biscay, Voyage to Buenos Aires, p. 54 (London, 1 7 16). 



^ Relaciones Geograficas de Indias, Peru, Tom. ii, App., p. x (Madrid, 

 1885). 



^ Historia Provincice Paraquaride, Lib. viii, Cap. 5. 



* Ren6-Moreno mentions in his Biblioteca Boliviana, p. 599, that at the be- 

 ginning of this century there existed in the Hbrary of the Pueblo de San 

 Ignacio, Province of Chiquito, an Arte de la lengua Guaycuru, one volume 

 quarto, MS. Possibly this is one of the works referred to in the text. 



