1S80.I 4iO [Gatschet. 



Latin : curtinale) of the Kaffirs. Tliey must have been very fond of 

 personal ornaments as LeMoyne's pictures tend to show, and tattooing with 

 some indelible color was carried to a high pitch of artistic development. 

 They seated themselves on coarse benches made of nine poles or canes run- 

 ning parallel, the benches forming half circles ; there they held their councils 

 of war and peace, while the women prepared food for them, or let thecassine 

 drink make the round of the assembled warriors. They were adepts in 

 the art of manufacturing fans, hats and other tissues from palmetto leaves, 

 and also moulded large earthen vessels, in which water was carried. Not 

 less were they acquainted with ideographic writing, for each of the two 

 head-chiefs Olata Utina and Hostaqua sent five painted skins as presents 

 to Captain Rene de Laudonniere. 



A study of Pareja's tatemic list goes to show that two kinds of descenden- 

 cies existed among the Timucua. The names of the first refer simply to 

 the relations wbich the men of the tribe or tribes entertained to their chief, 

 as councillors, etc. ; but the second list contains the ancient names of the 

 gentes or clans, as given to them through their totem. The majority of 

 these totems are names of animals, and herein the Timucua do not differ 

 from other North American Indians east of the' Rocky Mountains. The 

 two lists of Pareja seem to stand in no reciprocal connection, and hence it 

 is to be presumed that a man who belonged, /. i., to the Anacotima could 

 belong at the same time to the Apahola or some other clan mentioned in 

 the second list. 



Bibliography. 



The following are the titles of Pareja's works consulted by me in the 

 library of the Historical Society of New York : 



I. 



Cathecismo en lengua Castellana, y Timuquana. En el qual se contiene 

 lo que se les puede ensehar a los adultos que an de ser baptizados. Com- 

 puesto por el P. F. Francisco Pareja, Religioso de la Orden del seraphico 

 P. S. Francisco, guardian del Conuento de la purisima Cbcepcion de N. 

 Senora de S. Augustin, y Padre de la Custpdia de sancta Elena de la Flor- 

 ida. (Woodcut.) en mexico, en la impreta de la Viuda de Pedro Balli. 

 Por C. Adriano Cesar M. DC. XII. 



In 16mo., eighty leaves or 160 pages, not numbered, but every quire 

 marked with a letter of the alphabet running from A to K inclusive, at 

 lower right hand margin, the leaves being marked with Roman figures : 

 Biii, Biiii, Gii, Iv etc. 



II. 



In the copy consulted by me the following " Doctrina " is bound into 

 same volume as part of a second Catechism : 



Catechismo y breve exposicion de la doctrina Christiana mu3 r util y 

 necessaria, asi para los Espaholes como para los Naturales, en Lengua Cas- 

 tellana y Timuquana, en modo de preguntas, y respuestas. Compuesto por 

 el P. F. Francisco Pareja de la Orden de N. Seraphico P. S. Francisco, 

 Padre de la Custodia de S. Elena de la Florida. 



