Gatschet.] ±kk L p e b. 20, 



ence of linguistic families proves, and is associated with racial difference. 

 But racial difference is not always associated with a disparateness of lin- 

 guistic family, for it is recorded that certain individuals, tribes and nations 

 have, in the course of time, been prevailed upon to adopt the idioms of 

 neighboring populations, especially when conquered by them. 



Although the method, how to infer a difference of race from a thorough, 

 radical disparateness of language was above the conception even of the 

 most learned men of the sixteenth century, we see that these as well' as the 

 common adventurers who Hooded the islands and coasts of America were 

 close observers of the ethnographic peculiarities of the tribes they visited. 

 Their records leave us in the dark concerning the languages spoken by the 

 Teqestas and Calos on the southern extremity of Florida ; we cannot 

 gather from them whether Caribs, "Western or Northern Indians were 

 settled in the peninsula at the time of their visit. But they transmit us 

 many peculiar traits and customs, from which they seem to have inferred 

 that all Southern Indians of the Gulf States belonged to one stock. 



Our present knowledge of Timucua shows that it stands in no radical 

 connection with the Galibi dialects of South America (Arowak, Cumana- 

 gota, Chaymas, etc.), nor with the extinct Galibi idioms of the West In- 

 dies (Eyeri, Taino, Lucayo, etc.), nor with the Carib on the coast of Hon- 

 duras. We must therefore discountenance, in some degree, the far-going 

 speculations concerning Carib colonies, and their influence on the Indians 

 in the Apalache country, indulged in by Hervas, Catalogo I, pag. 386 Ac, 

 though seafaring men of this nation may have temporarily settled on that 

 coast. Hervas quotes the following terms from Bristock : "Palafcras de 

 los Apalachinos que tienen de los caribes: buottou maza, taumali guisada, 

 banare qmigo familiar, etotou enemigo, allouha arco, allouani flechas, 

 taonabo lago, estangue, ruabouya espiritu maligno, akaruboue alma humana 

 y innumerables palabras de cosas curiosas y raras, comunes a los caribes 

 de las Antillas."* Pag. 386 : "Las provincias fapalaches) de Amana y 

 Matibue, en donde hay muchas familias de caribes, tienen muchas palabrus 

 del antiguo idioma caribe." 



Rene de Laudonniere's report, from which Hakluyt made his English and 

 Theodore de Bry his Latin translation, is dated 1586, and bears the follow- 

 ing title : 



L'HISTOIRE I NOTABLE DE LA FLO | RIDE SITUEE ES 

 INDES j Occidentals, contenant les trois voyages faits en icelle par cer- 

 tains Capitaines & Pilotes Francais, descrits par'le Capitaine Laudonniere, 

 qui y a commande 1'espace d'vn an trois rnoys : a laquelle a este adiouste* 

 vn quatriesnie voyage fait par le Capitaine Gourgues. 



Mise en lumiere par M. Basanier, gentil-homme Francois Mathemath ien. 



(Vignette : Bellerophon and the chimera. J 



* Most of these terras can be identified with Carib words once in use on the 

 Island of Guadeloupe, etc. cf. Breton, Diet. ; Brinton, Notes on the Ft. penin- 

 sula, pag. 9C- 18. 



