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of semibarbarous nations, which are examined 

 not because they deserve a place among the 

 works of art, but because their study throws 

 some light on the history of our own species, 

 and the progressive display of our faculties. 



After the Chavmas, it remains for me to 

 speak of the other Indian nations, which inha- 

 bit the provinces of Cumana and Barcelona. 

 These I shall only succinctly enumerate. 



1. The Pariagotoes or P arias. It is thought, 

 that the terminations in goto, as in Pariagoto, 

 Purugoto, Avarigoto 3 Acherigoto, Cumanagoto, 

 Arinagoto, Kirikirisgoto # , imply a Caribbean 

 origin -f. All these tribes, excepting the Pu- 

 rugotoes of Rio Caura, formerly occupied the 

 country, which has been so long under the do- 

 minion of the Caribbees ; namely, the coasts of 

 Berbice and of Essequibo, the peninsula of 

 Paria, the plains of Piritoo and Parima. It is 

 by this last name that the country little known, 



* The Kirikirisgotoes (or KirihiripasJ are of Dutch Gui- 

 ana. It is very remarkable, that among the small Brazilian 

 tribes that do not talk the language of the Tupis ; the Kiriris, 

 notwithstanding the enormous distance of 650 leagues, have 

 several Tamanack words. 



f In the Tamanack tongue, which is of the same branch 

 as the Caribbean, we find also the termination goto, as in 

 anekiamgoto, an animal. Often an analogy in the termination 

 of names, far from showing an identity of race, only indicates, 

 that the names of the nations are borrowed from one language. 



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