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OTHER NATIVE TRIBES. 



CHAP. D 



(innj'queiia: 



Quaquas 



Cumana- 



gotos. 



Caiibbees. 



Katives of 



idea of tlieir being specifically lighter than the rest of 

 the natives. 



The Guayqucrias are the most interpid fishermen of 

 these countries, and are the only persons well acquainted 

 with the great bank that surrounds the islands of Coche, 

 Margarita, Sola, and Testigos. They inhabit Margarita, 

 the peninsula of Araya, and a suburb of Cumana. 



The Quaquas, formerly a very warlike tribe, are now 

 mingled witli the Cliaymas attached to the missions of 

 Cumana, although their original abode was on the banks 

 of the Assivcru. 



The Cumanagotos, to the number of more than 

 twenty-six thousand, subject to the Christian stations of 

 Piritoo, live westward of Cumana, where they cultivate 

 the ground. At the beginning of the sixteenth century 

 they inhabited the mountains of the Brigantine and 

 Parabolota. 



The Caribbees of these countries are part of the rem- 

 nant of the great Carib nation. 



The natives of America may be divided into two great 

 classes. To the first belong the Esquimaux of Green- 

 land, Labrador, and Hudson's Ba}', and the inhabitants 

 of Behring's Straits, Alaska, and Prince William's 

 Sound. Tlie eastern and western brandies of this great 

 family, the Esquimaux proper and the Tchougazcs, are 

 united by the most intimate similarity of language, 

 altiiough separated to the immense distance of eight 

 hundred leagues. The inhabitants of the north-east of 

 Asia are evidently of the same stock. Like the Malays, 

 tliis hyperborean nation resides only on the scacoast. 

 They are lively and loquacious, and of smaller stature 

 than the other Americans. Their liair is straight and 

 black ; but their skin is originally white, in which 

 respect they essentially differ from the other class. 



The second race is dispersed over the various regions 

 of the continent, from the northern jiarts to the south- 

 ern extremity. They are of larger size, more warlike, 

 and more taciturn, and differ in the colour of their skin. 



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