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all colors, evidently held as great treasure, and also innumerable 
small trinkets filled the cemeteries. There was no evidence that they. 
embalmed any of their dead. The chief insisted that if the Amer- 
icans tried to penetrate into the interior they would encounter a 
savage tribe who would kill them with their poisoned arrows. 
So far, only the Cuna family of Darien has been considered, yet 
there have been many references to other Indians in the southern 
part with whom the Cunas had frequent quarrels. Reclus (15) 
noticed that the Indians in some sections spoke of themselves as the 
“'Ti ” and others as the “ Do” Indians, which is interesting, as “Ti ” 
means water in the Cuna dialect, and “ Do” means the same thing 
in the Choco dialect, according to the vocabularies of the two lan- 
guages compiled by Pinart.t In one place Reclus (15) speaks of 
“les autochtones de la region (Darien) les Indiens Cunas et Chocas 
* * * refoulés dans Vintérieur ou ils habitent les hautes valles 
de la Tuyra et du Chucunaque.” Reclus (p. 210) further says “ that 
_ the ‘Ti’ Indians are small and thick set and early become obese; 
the ‘Do’ on the contrary are large and well made, keeping the 
purity of their forms to an advanced age.” Pinart in “ Les In- 
diens de l’etat Panama” says, “there is certain proof of a 
second nation ” in Darien, but in his “ Notes sur les limites de civili- 
zation de l’Isthme American,” he says that the Chocos in Darien 
were only in small colonies, being a branch of the main Choco stock, 
which extended through Colombia, and which was a very brave 
and proud race. Without doubt the “ Do” Indians encountered by 
Reclus, when in the vicinity of the Paya tribe, were the remnant of 
their neighbors, the Paparos, with whom they were usually at war. 
The original trouble between the Paparos and the Payas was caused 
by the former resenting the theft of their boys and girls, whom 
the Payas sold as slaves to the Spanish. Puinart’s note on these 
Indians, in his little book entitled “ Vocabulario, Castellano-Doras- 
que,” is very interesting. 
Brinton (35) says that the Chocos settled about the Rio Sambu, 
which flows into the Gulf of San Miguel near Point Garachine. 
These Chocos were of the Chocamus tribe, and were numerous till 
a few years ago. On comparing the photographs obtained of the 
Indians in the lower Chucunaque Valley, with the Cunas of San 
Blas, it will readily be seen that the former are larger and ap- 
pear darker in color, exhibiting quite a different type altogether.” 
@Belman (12), speaking of the main stock of the Chocos, gives the word 
water as “Da” instead of ‘‘ Do.” 
bTt is obvious from the photographs that the women of this region do not 
object to being seen by white men, and have apparently “posed” before the 
camera, which is another indication that there is a fundamental difference be- 
tween them and the Cunas, as they are on the north coast. 
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