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The toes 



The calf of the leg 



A crocodile 



A fish 



Maize 



Plantain 



Cacao 



Tobacco 



Mimosa inga. . , , 

 Cecropia peltata . . 

 Myrtus pimenta . . 



Agaric 



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 3 

 4 

 5 



10 



PARENT TONGUE. 



Nociziriani 



Nocavua 



Cazuiti 



Cimasi 



Cana 



Paratana (Teot)* ... 



Cacavuat 



Jema 



(Caraba) 



(Jocovi) 



(Pumake) 



(Cajuli) 



Puziana (Pagiana) ... 

 Sinapa (Achinafe) ... 

 Meteuba (Meteufafa) 



Puriana vacavi 



Puriana vacavi uscha- 



nite 



Puriassima vacavi . . . 



MAYPURE TONGUE, 



Amana 

 Timaki 

 Jomuki 

 Arata 



Jema 



Papeta (Popetas) 

 Avanume(Avanome) 

 Apekiva (Pejiveji) 

 (Jalivac) 



(Javiji) 



* We may be surprised to find the word teot, denote the 

 eminently nutritive substance, that supplies the place of 

 corn (the gift of a beneficent divinity), and on which the sub- 

 sistence of man within the tropics depends. I shall mention 

 on this occasion,, that the word Teo, or Teot, which in Azteck, 

 signifies God (Teotl, properly Teo, for tl is only a termina- 

 tion), is found in the language of the Betoi of the Rio Meta, 

 The name of the Moon, in this language so remarkable for the 



+ Has this word been introduced from a communication 

 with Europeans ? It is almost identical with the Mexican (Az- 

 teck) word cacava. See my Essai Polit. vol. ii, p. 435, 



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