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the Ere vat. o, in Parima, to French Guiana and 

 the coasts of Paria. 



4. The Quaquas, whom the Tamanacks call 

 Mapoje, a tribe formerly very warlike, and al- 

 lied to the Caribbees. It is a curious pheno- 

 menon to find these mingled with the Chay- 

 mas in the Missions of Cumana, for their idiom, 

 as well as the Atura of the cataracts of the 

 Oroonoko, is a dialect of the Salive tongue; 

 and their original abode was on the banks of 

 the Assiveru, which the Spaniards call Cu- 

 chivero. They have pushed their migrations one 

 hundred leagues to the north-east. I have often 

 heard them mentioned on the Oroonoko, above 

 the mouth of the Meta ; and, what is very re- 

 markable, it is asserted % that missionary Je- 

 suits have found Quaquas as far distant as the 

 Cordilleras of Popayan. Raleigh enumerates, 

 among the natives of the Island of Trinidad, 

 the Salives, a tribe of the mildest manners, 

 from the Oroonoko, which dwells south of the 



Cumanagote and Caribbean names, means a ravine, as in 

 Guaymacuar (Ravine of Lizards) Pirichucuar (a ravine over- 

 shaded by pirichoo or piritoo palm-trees), Chiguatacuar , (a 

 ravine of land shells). Raleigh describes the Guaikeries 

 under the name of Ouikeries. He calls the Chaymas Sai- 

 mas, changing (according to the Caribbean pronunciation) 

 the che into s. 



* Vater, Tom. iii, P. II, p. 364. The name of Quaqua 

 is found on tha coast of Guinea. The Europeans give it 

 to a horde of Negroes to the east of Cape Lahon. 



