SECT. V.] CHANGE OF LANGUAGE. 251 



Mallat 1 they speak Spanish, and have adopted many Spanish 

 customs ; but according to D'Urville, 2 the imported population 

 do not speak Spanish, but the language of the natives, the 

 Chamorro. In America, also, the Spanish has frequently re- 

 placed the languages of the natives, especially in S. Salvador, 

 Nicaragua, and Costa Eica, the original languages of which are 

 unknown. These phenomena do not, however, appear to be 

 so general as Latham asserts ; 3 but are limited in Nicaragua to 

 certain districts, are more frequent in S. Salvador, and occur 

 also in some villages in Honduras. 4 



As in these cases the exchange of language may be explained 

 from extensive intermixture of the natives with the Spaniards, 

 so also among the Guayqueriers, a branch of the Guaraunos 

 on the coast of S. Margaretha, who now all speak Spanish, and 

 differ much in external appearance from individuals of their own 

 stock. 5 This likewise applies to the populations of Baradero, 

 Quilmos, Calchaguy, and S. Domingo Soriano, on the river 

 Negro, who not having been by the Jesuits united in commu- 

 nities, have preserved their liberty, and pass now as Spaniards, 

 whose language and customs they have adopted in consequence 

 of intermixture ; 6 also to the inhabitants of Chiloe, whose ori- 

 ginal language is almost entirely forgotten and replaced by the 

 Spanish. 7 With regard to the Changes, who reach from 

 Huasco to Cobija, the accounts are contradictory. According 

 to some they are Indians, according to others they are the de- 

 scendants of Spaniards, who in the olden time had settled 

 there; their language seems to be a corrupt Spanish; they 

 dress like the lower classes of Chili, and have had, as is asserted, 

 little intercourse with the Spaniards. 8 The Indians of the 

 environs of Rio Janeiro have also almost entirely lost their 



1 " Les Philippines/' i, p. 342, 1846. 



2 " Voyage de 1' Astrolabe," v, p. 277. 



3 " Journal of the Royal Geographical Society," xx, p. 189. 



4 Scherzer, " Wanderungen durch d. mittel am Freistaaten," pp. 165, 402, 

 348; 1857. 



5 Humboldt und Bonpland, i, p. 467. 



6 Azara, " Voy. dans 1'Am. merid.," ii, p. 217, 1809. 



7 King and Fitzroy, i, p. 278. 



8 De la Salle, " Voyage autour du monde sur la Bonite," ii, p. 13, 1845 ; 

 St. Cricq, " Bullet. Soc. Geog.," ii, p. 304, 1853 ; Philippi, in Petermann's 

 "Geogr. Mittheil.," p. 56, 1856. 



