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between the sources of the Cujuni, the Caroni ? 

 and the Mao, is designated in the Missions. 

 The Paria * Indians are mingled in part with 

 the Chaymas of Cumana ; others have been 

 settled by the Capuchins of Arragon in the 

 Missions of -Carom ; for instance, at Cupapuy 

 and Alta-Gracia, where they still speak their 

 own language, which appears to be a mean be- 

 tween the Tamanack and the Caribbee. But 

 is the name of Parias or Pariagotoes a name 

 merely geographical ? Did the Spaniards, who 

 frequented these coasts from their first esta- 

 blishment in the Island of Cubagua and in Ma- 

 carapana, confer the name of the promontory of 

 Paria <f on the tribe by which it was inhabited ? 



* Caulin, p. 9, 8&, 136. Vater., Vol. iii, Part 2, p. 465, 

 617, 676. Gili, Vol. iii, p. 201, 205. 



f Paria, Uraparia, even Huriaparia and Payra, are the 

 ancient names of the country, written as the first navigators 

 thought they heard them pronounced (Ferd. Columbus, in 

 Churchill's Collection, Vol. ii, p. 586, chap. 71. Galvano, 

 in Hakluyfs SuppL, 1812, p. 18. Petrus Martyr, p. 73—75. 

 Girolamo Benzoni, p. 7. Geraldini Itinerar., p. 17. Christ. 

 Columbi Navigatio, in Gryn. Orb. Nov. p. 80 and 86. Go- 

 mara, p. 109, cap. 84). It appears to me not at all pro- 

 bable, that the promontory of Paria should derive it's name 

 from that of a Cacique Uriapari, celebrated for the manner 

 in which he resisted Diego Ordaz in 1530, thirty-two years 

 after Columbus had heard the name of Paria from the 

 mouths of the natives themselves. (Fray Pedro Simon, p. 

 103, Noticia 2, cap. 16. Caulin, p. 134 and 143.) TheOroo- 4 

 noko at it's mouth had also the name of Uriapari, Yuyapari, 



