INHABITANTS OF GUATEMALA. 



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the work begun by Brinton, Stoll, aud others is sfill far from complete, and 

 meantime the tribes are disappearing, and several languages spoken down to the 

 present centur}- are now extinct. East of the meridian of Lake Amatitlan, nearly 



Fig. 93.— Landscape ix South Guatemala— Bamboo Jungle. 



all the Indians have already become Ladinos, aud no longer speak their primitive 

 tongues. Nevertheless, according to Stoll, as many as eighteen native languages 

 were still current within the limits of the republic in 1883. 



The Aztecs, the dominant indigenous element in iV.nahuac, are represented in 



