-476 General Notes. 
Maracaibo, a sketch of their customs and sociology was published 
in 1888.? Before this, Rafael Celedon, director of the seminary at 
-Santa Marta, wrote a grammar of the language, which was pub- 
lished by E. Uricoechea in Maisonneuve & Co.’s Linguistic Collec- 
tion, Paris, 1888. In an appendix to that treatise, Uricoechea 
reproduced Ernst’s vocabulary of Guajiro without giving credit to 
the author for it. Celedon’s work was regarded as insufficient in 
several respects by Don Jorge Isaacs, who published his critical 
remarks and strictures in the Estudio del lenguaje Guajiro” Ernst 
regards that treatise as a valuable contribution to the knowledge of 
these South American dialects. Celedon, however, asserted his 
position, and defended himself against Isaacs’s strictures in another 
article of the same Anales, entitled Gramatica Guajira, 1887, pp. 
491-515. It seems to us that these attacks were victoriously 
‘warded off in part, and no student of that language must fail to 
read the writings of both antagonists. Both are placing the Guajiro 
language among the Carib dialects, to which it undoubtedly belongs. 
Ernst himself expresses the opinion “ that this tribe forms a fragment 
-of the scattered Arrowak, or Aruak ethnic family, linguistically as 
well as anthropologically:” He states that the word Guajiro also 
occurs on the island of Cuba, the farmers being called by this name 
there from guayu, we (in Arawak wáyu) in the Guajiro language. 
It is impossible to make a full extract of Ernst’s valuable article, and 
‘we have to refer our readers to the paper itself. Celedon has recen 
published materials upon the Kéggaba language, which is distantly 
related to Guajiro (Paris: Maisonneuve & Co., 1886), and spoken 
in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta.—A. S. Gatschet. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY AND PREHISTORICS OF 
Bavarta.—The latest number of this celebrated periodical,’ which 
is published by the Munich Society of Anthropology, does not lag 
behind its predecessors in elaborateness and scientific importance. 
The curious subterranean gangways and corridors, which occur 1n 4 
large portion of Wiirtemberg, Bavaria and Austria, were first 
explored and described between 1830 and 1840, Among the 
rustics many fairy and hobgoblin tales circulate on their account, 
these spirits being called Erdleutl, Erdweibl, Schratzeln, Ratzln, 
Wichtelen, Alraune, Weiberl, and many other names, and represented 
as industrious and very bashful little beings. Some of these corri- 
dors take their starting-point from old castles, churches, mansions 
and their cellars, even from buildings now used as breweries, an 
parson’s dwellings. Dr. Aug. Hartmann’ has published his results 
on this part of archeology in the exhaustive article “ Unterrdische 
Gänge,” pp. 93-129, stating that many other investigators are DOW 
engaged on this subject, and expect to publish their results in due 
time. Major C. Popp describes the Roman castellum, which for- 
merly stood on a height near Pfünz, on the Altmihl River, 
1 Ausland of Stuttgart, January, 1888. 
