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Lexicograficos. As indicating the southern boundary may be cited 
the statement by Gabb (484) that the town of San Ramon is “not far 
from the borders of the Guatuso country.’ Attention is directed 
likewise to what is said of this tribe by Peralta in the extract from 
his paper given above. ) 
As will be seen by reference to the List of Families and Tribes on 
the map, the writer has followed the philologists in placing the 
Guatusan dialect in the Chibchan family. This relation appears to 
be borne out by the vocabularies, though not to a very marked 
extent. 
GUETARE 
(Synonym: Huetare) 
Doctor Brinton (3 : 146) at first associated this idiom with the Chiapa- 
necan linguistic stock, but afterward (4: 498) decided from material 
which had come into his possession that 1t pertamed to the Talaman- 
can linguistic group. While it is very probable that Doctor Brinton 
is correct in his later conclusion, which is here followed, the evidence 
he presents is not entirely satisfactory. This consists in the com- 
parison of very brief vocabularies, as follows: 
GUETARE OTHER TALAMANCAN DIALECTS 
man pejelillt pejettillé=vir. 
woman palacrak palacrak 
sun cagune cagune 
moon Sura j tura 
fire yocd yoco 
water dicre dicre 
head sotacit sotacu 
eye sequebra seguebra, or wobra 
ear secuque zgo-ku 
mouth sequeque ko-kwu 
nose seyiquete jik 
tongue sequecte 1. kok-tu 
tooth saka ka 
hand seyura ura 
foot ecuru kru-kwe 
house lu hu 
The agreement between the two idioms, as shown by these brief 
lists, is so close that they may be considered as one and the same 
language. In other words, the evidence proves too much in view of 
the fact that the Guetare vocabulary, which was obtained by Doctor 
Berendt, was marked by him ‘Ancient Talamanca,’ and not 
Guetare. Moreover, this was obtained about forty-four years ago 
from some natives residing near San José de Costa Rica, but not a 
word, it seems, was said in regard to their relation to the Guetare 
tribe. Doctor Brinton adds, ‘‘It is called Talamanca, but Mr. Gabb, 
1 From Gabb. 
