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gapoto onque ; give me some water, tuna onque ; give me some bread, 

 arepa onque ; thus they always set the verb first. Their numerals run 

 as follows: i, toi ; 2, asaque; 3, asergau ; 4, ispe ; 5, petpe ; 6, 

 asergauesne ; 7, petpesne ; 8, ispesne; 9, emiatemere; 10, asaqueemi, 

 or apona, meaning both hands ; to express 20, they say ispe emiapona, 

 meaning four times my hands ; let's go, maicomo ; master, iesem ; 

 and thus this language continues. 



95. The Indian tribe of the island of Trinidad, Nepuya by name, 

 and those of the Province of Guiana, speak practically the same lan- 

 guage, e.g. : I tell you, amuere ; give me something to eat, charey- 

 erepare ; wait, tamacare ; there isn't any, ipura mana ; you lie, 

 acayaremate ; I am telling the truth, quanene ; I am dying of hunger, 

 coropiase ; make haste, yomeyomese ; I am doing my best, tamacare- 

 seapone ; light, guapot. The Aruaca tribe, which lives round about 

 the mouths of the Orinoco, has : quick ! jurace ; come here, vacuna ; 

 cassava or bread, cale ; to the house, vadahabo ; to the road, cayure ; 

 to the light, iquigi ; to the sky, casacomuin ; to the wind, aguadule ; to 

 the water, guine; to the thunder, curacale. Their numerals run as 

 follows: I, abarua; 2, viama; 3, viauite ; 4, cabuin ; 5, abadacabo; 

 their reckoning does not go beyond 5 ; to express 10, they say 

 viamadacabo, i.e., the two numerals 2 and 5, and they follow this 

 system for higher numerals. 



96. The Carib tribe Carina who live at the mouths of the River 

 Orinoco, have : kill, sipoca ; give me something to eat, yareyare 

 aguacheme ; I already understand you, to ; I am glad you understood 

 me, tare to ; come here, paguanareto ; I am a friend of Christians, 

 apapurato ; companion, pabonare ; light, guato ; to the knife, maria ; 

 to the house, ante. 



97. The Cuayanes, Nepuyos, Cuayqueries, Cumanagotos have 

 guapot for light ; the Chaguanes and Tibitibes, fe. The Ajaguas 

 have : wait, mata ; to the water, une. There are countless other tribes 

 as far as the Maraiion and inland, living as savages in blind heathen- 

 dom, and speaking more than 50,000 different languages ; those men- 

 tioned above are of tribes which have been Christianized and brought 

 to the knowledge of our faith. This brief sketch must suffice as an 

 account of the confusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel, the origin 

 and descent of the Indians, and the languages just described with an 

 explanation of words and meanings ; thus the reader will have a bit 

 of everything for his entertainment ; now we must undertake the 

 description of the Indies, beginning with the island of Hispaniola, 

 largest of the Windward Islands, the first one conquered and colo- 



