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As no information in relation to the intervening strip is available, 
it is considered best to connect it with that of the Jicaque. 
CARIB 
As the Carib of the gulf coast of Honduras were not established 
in this region until near the close of the eighteenth century, they 
may be omitted from extended consideration here, as they have been 
fromthemap. Itis necessary to remark only that they are confined to 
the northern coast of Honduras. But one dialect has been noticed— 
the Moreno—a vocabulary of which is given by Membrefio. He 
refers to the pueblo of Santafé de Punta-hicacos as inhabited by 
Morenos. Stoll locates a small colony about Livingstone, at the 
embouchure of the Rio Dulce, on the northeast coast of Guatemala. 
MATAGALPA 
This is the chief if not the only language of a small stock named by 
Brinton (3: 149) the Matagalpan. Squier applies the name Chondal 
(Chontal of Oviedo and Gomara) in part to the people speaking this 
language, but without mention of any distinction. Recognition of 
this distinction is due to Doctor Brinton(3 : 149), who obtained among 
the papers of Doctor Berendt a vocabulary of the language. The 
area occupied, having the city of Matagalpa as its central point, em- 
braced a large part of the Matagalpa district, and extended into the 
districts of Segovia and Chontales in Nicaragua. Sapper (1: 29-30) 
says, ‘‘At present the Matagalpan language is spoken as an isolated 
dialect only in the Salvadorean villages Cacaopera and Lislique by 
some 3,000 persons.”’ Whether this dialect differs in any respect 
from Matagalpa proper is not stated. The two villages mentioned 
are situated in the extreme northeastern corner of Salvador. As 
they are a considerable distance from Matagalpa, it is best, perhaps, 
to consider the language spoken in them as a subdialect of Matagalpa 
proper. 
MANGUE 
(Synonym: Choluteca) 
Extending along the Pacific coast from the Bay of Fonseca in 
Honduras to the Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica, and living between 
the lakes and the ocean, were several small tribes belonging to 
different linguistic stocks: three—Mangue, Dirian, Orotinan—to the 
Chiapanecan; one—Niquiran—to the Nahuatlan; and another— 
Subtiaban—forming an independent family. 
Mangue, or Choluteca, as Squier designated it, a Chiapanecan dia- 
lect, was the most northwesterly tribe of the series, the area occupied 
extending, according to this writer (8:1, 310), northward from the 
