INHABITANTS OF COSTA RICA. 



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to Thiel hundreds are still kept in a state cf servitude in Nicaragua, where the 

 price of a Guatuso was recently fifty dollars. 



The natives of the southern districts are generally grouped under the collective 

 name of Talamancas, although each tribe has its special designation» Such are 



Fig-. 135. -Young Talamancas Indians 



the Chirripos, the Cabecars, Yiceitas, Bribri and Tiribies, who still decorate them- 

 selves with plumes, strings of teeth or pearl necklaces, and dwell in jmlenqties with 

 thatched roof reaching to the ground. 



On the Pacific coast live other tribes, the Borucas or Bruncas, the Terrebas and 

 others, who have given their names to the neighbouring villages. The Chirripos 

 and Cabecars near the Cartago district have already been baptised. The other 

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