APPENDIX. 
VOCABULARIES OP AMAZONIAN LANGUAGES. 
The accompanying Vocabularies were eolleeted with much care^ 
and several of them tested by a second party. The words are 
spelt with the vowels sounded as in Portugnese^ thus^ a, e, i, o, u, 
ai, pronouneed ah, a, e, o, oo, i, and the eonsoiiaiits as in English. 
A til^ thus ~ , over a letter denotes that it has a nasal sound ; 
the accent shows where the stress is to be laid ; and a letter 
placed above the line shows that it is to be very faintly sounded^ 
often in a peculiar way^ as the I in walnut. The languages 
are arranged in geographical order^ commencing with those 
spoken on the banks of the Amazon^ near the frontiers of 
Eeuador and terminating on the tributaries of the Orinooko. 
The Lingoa Geral is placed firsts because it is the most widely 
spread language of South America_, but it does not contain a 
single word in common with any of the other ten languages 
here given; and those that agree with it in not placing the 
pronoun my as a prefix to the words signifying parts of the 
body^ differ most remarkably from it in the general combina- 
tions of the letters and the sounds of the words. 
The Lingoa Geral^ the Uainambeu^ and the languages 
spoken at Maroa and Javita are soft and euphonious_, while the 
Curetu and Tucano are particularly harsh and guttural^ the 
