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unquestionably a branch of the great Arawack family and are 

 related, as he suggests, to the Terenos and Miranhas. 



This position has already been assigned to certain ''Cataquinas " 

 by Ehrenreich ;^ and the relationship is evident enough from Dr. 

 Bach's vocabulary. But another problem faces us in explaining the 

 wide discrepancy which his list of words shows when compared to 

 the Catoquina vocabulary printed by von Martins.'' The latter, 

 taken by von Spix on the river Jurua, is certainly not of the same 

 tribe, and it might appear doubtful if it belongs to the same stock, 

 so wide are its discrepancies. But an extended comparison lines 

 it up more closely with the Arawack than elsewhere. 



I subjoin a comparison : 



It is interesting to note that all the words in Bach's vocabulary 

 which are not Arawack are pure Tupi. The word for " bow " is 

 derived from that for '* arrow," uhyna, which is the Tupi hui, or 

 uhi ; foot, pihu^ is the Tupi pi ; hammock, ouysa, is the Tupi quiha ; 

 and house, oca, is the same in Tupi. Except one, these are all 

 *' culture words," and indicate that the Catoquinas first became 

 acquainted with the objects to which they refer after they had met 

 the Tupi tribes. 



^ In Petermann's Mitiheilungen, 1891, p. 17. 



* Published in hxs Wdrtersam?tiliing biasilianischer Spraihen (Leipzig, 

 1867). 



