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well-described dialect. The Uainambeii in the south-west^ the 
Juri in the souths and the Coretu in the west, are each and all 
on the limits of terrae mcognitcB. For the parts between the 
western watershed of the Eio Magdalena in New Granada, the 
71st degree of west longitude, the 4th degree of north latitude 
(there or thereabouts), the River Napo, and the Amazons, I 
know of no vocabularies, still less of any grammars. Hence, 
of any tongue spoken at one and the same time to the west 
of the Rio Negro, to the south of the Rio Inirida, to the 
north of the Amazons, and to the east of the Putumayo, the 
only specimens are the ones under notice. 
1. To the east of the Rio Negro, the vocabularies that bring 
us nearest to Mr. Wallace’s are those of Sir Robert Schom- 
burgk, of which the Guinau is the most western. They are all 
dealt with by Sir Robert Schomburgk himself as members of 
the great Carib (Carib-Tamanak) family, and this upon rea- 
sonable and sufficient grounds. 
2. For the north we must seek our chief data in the ^Mith- 
ridates ’ and in Humboldt. 
Along the rivers Meta, Vichada, and Guaviare, feeders of 
the Orinoco, different forms of the Saliva language are spoken 
— a language of which the distribution reminds us of the 
Guarani, although it is far less remarkable for its extent. 
At the same time it is so far fluviatile as to follow to the 
system of the Orinoco, and so far extensive as to occur on the 
Upper Meta at the present time, and to be supposed (on rea- 
sonable grounds) to have once reached as far eastwards as 
Trinidad. 
b. Conterminous with the Saliva, and also conterminous 
with the Guiana and Venezuelan members of the great Carib 
family, lie the populations speaking languages akin to the 
Maypure and Pareni — of both of which forms of speech we 
have specimens (Humboldt’s and that of the ^ Mithridates’), 
though short and insufficient. That the Caveri, the Avani, 
and the Poignavi (Guipunavi) speak dialects akin to each 
