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MEXICO, CENTE.IL AMLEICA, WEST INDIES. 



belono" to a single stock, tliat of the Cunas (Cana-Cuna), called also 27, or "River 

 People," from their aquatic dwellings along the banks of the streams. In the 

 same way the Chocos of the Atrato basin are called Do, a word of precisely the 

 same meaning. 



The Ciinas, who call themselves Tule, or *' Men," are supposed to be of Carib 



Fig. 145. — Isthmus of Chieiqui. 

 Scale 1 : 1,500,000. 







82°40 



West oF Greenwich 62° 



Depths. 



to 10 

 Fathoms. 



10 to 100 

 Fathoms. 



100 Fathoms 

 and upwards. 



J S Miles. 



stock. They are in general a small-sized, thickset people, wdth a great tendency 

 to corpulence. Albinos are by no means rare, while the fair complexion and red 

 hair occurring here and there would seem to suggest long contact with the bucca- 

 neers. They formerly practised tattooing, but now smear the doby with the blackish 



