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other and to the Maypnre rests upon external evidence. Spe» 
cimens are wanted. South of the Rio Uapes in Arrowsmith’s 
London Atlas lie the Meppuris, similar in name to the May- 
pure_, but by no means necessarily allied to them 
c. Further north (in a north-western direction) on the Ca- 
sanare and the Lower Meta^ are the Yaruraj Betoi^ and Oto- 
maca tongues, 
3. South of the Amazons we must descend as far as the 
Province of Moxos (on the Beni) before we get anything be- 
yond the most fragmentary specimens of language. 
4. Westwards j and in the direction of the Andes^ the break 
is greater still. For New Granada_, a few words of the old 
Muysca language from the parts about Tunja^ and^ then^ a 
short list from the mouth of the Atrato (at the very neck of 
the Isthmus of Darien) constitute the whole of our materials. 
h. And matters are but little better in Ecuador. Between 
the Andes (of which the different Quichua dialects are pretty 
well known) and the area now under notice^ the Zapara voca- 
bulary of Osculates recently published work is all we have. 
The Zapara is spoken on the Rio Napo. 
Hence^ if we pass from the area illustrated by the speci- 
mens before us — specimens from a terra incognita — to the re- 
gion of known dialects_, we have (after a few Puru and Mun- 
drucu samples from the south bank of the Amazons)^ as lan- 
guages nearest in respect to their geographical localities — 
East , — The Carib dialects^ of which the nearest is Sir R. 
Schomburgk^s Guinau. 
North . — The Maypnre and Saliva families. 
West . — The Zapara. 
South . — The languages of the Province of Moxos. 
To the Zapara the present vocabularies are the least like ; 
and perhaps they are most like the Carib dialects. Now the 
Carib dialects have numerous affinities — some of them of a 
very remarkable kind. In the first place they have them with 
the Maypure and Saliva ; nexL they have them with the Guarani; 
