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Amna zezin, or enzez, let us 

 go. 



Etigua ? what is that ? 

 Mananequian, he is called. 

 Ipunet, he chooses it. 

 Artec narepo, who has seen 

 him 1 



Guayque cumuepo, or cumue- 



puec, they are going to 



kill game. 

 Zazamar, road. 

 Conopyaune, or conopyayere, 



in the time of the shower. 

 Quenpotupra quoguaz, I do 



not know him. 

 Qifenepra quoguaz, I have 



not seen him. 

 Terepuirpuec, why is he 



frightened } 

 Turayerpuec, because of the 



disease. 



Chetayma, within. 

 Cumueripian, he wanted to 



beat him. 

 Upatay guane mana, there is 



honey in my hut. 

 Tumanemia, always dancing, 

 Utechirin, I will go also. 

 Mazpantonoma apotoaca itu- 



muecon, the wicked only 



will go into the fire. 

 Patre Cumanantacanan, is the 



father at Cumana f 

 Cumanantacamana, yes, he is 



at Cumana. 

 Montaonocon, or tarotwcon, 



those of this place. 

 Miyonocon, those of that 



place below. 

 Yequiz puec capuemiaz, I 



tied him to the tree. 



NOTE C. 



When Christopher Columbus returned from his third voy- 

 age, a vague report was spread throughout all Europe, that 

 he had discovered by certain movements of the polar star, 

 that the coast of Paria and the neighbouring sea were ele- 

 vated like a vast table-land j that the Earth was not perfectly 

 round, but that (in the western countries) it had a rising 

 toward the equator ; that travellers ascended, in going from 

 Cadiz to the peninsula of Paria, and that owing to the great- 

 er elevation of these lands, Paria had a less burning cli- 

 mate, and a race of men less darkly coloured, than those of 



