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THE PAKIAG0T08. 
not because they deserve to be ranked among works of art, 
but because the study of them throws light oil the history 
of our species, and the progressive development of our 
faculties. 
It now remains for me to speak of the other Indian 
nations inhabiting the provinces of Cumana and Barcelona. 
These I shall only succinctly enumerate. 
I. _ The Fariagotos or Farias. It is thought that the 
terminations in goto, as Pariagoto, Pimigoto, Avarigoto, 
Acherigoto, Cumanagoto, Arinagoto, Kirikirisgoto * imply a 
Caribbean origin. f All these tribes, excepting the Purugo- 
tos ot the Bio Caura, formerly occupied the country which 
has been so long under the dominion of the Caribbees ; 
namely, the coasts ot Berbice and of Essequibo, the peninsula 
of Paria, the plains of Piritu and Parima. By this last 
name the little-known country, between the sources of the 
Cujuni, the Caroni, and the Mao, is designated in the 
Missions. The Paria Indians are mingled in part with the 
Chaymas of Cumana; others have been settled by the Ca- 
puchins of Aragon in the Missions of Caroni ; for instance, 
at Cupapuy and Alta- Gracia, where they still speak their 
own language, apparently a dialect between the Tamanac 
and_ the Oaribbee. But it may he asked, is the name 
Parks or Pariagotos, a name merely geographical ? Did the 
Spaniards, who frequented these coasts from their first esta- 
blishment in the island of Cubagua and ill Maearapana, 
give the name of the promontory of PariaJ to the tribe hv 
* The Kiritcmsgotos (or Kirikiripas) are of Dutch Guiana. It is 
very remarkable, that among the small Brazilian tribes who do not speak 
the language^ of the Tupis, the Kiriris, notwithstanding the enormous 
distance of 650 leagues, have several Tamanac words. 
t In the Tamanac tongue, which is of the same branch as the Carib- 
bean, we find also the termination goto, as in mekiamgoto ‘ an animal.’ 
Often an analogy in the termination of names, far from showing an 
identity of race, only indicates that the names of the nations are borrowed 
from one language. 
J Paria, Uraparia, even Huriaparia and Payra, are the ancient names 
of the country, written as the first navigators thought they heard them 
pronounced. It appears to me by no means probable, that the promon- 
tory of Paria should derive its name from that of a cacique Uriapari 
celebrated for the manner in which lie resisted Diego Ordaz in 153o’ 
thirty-two years alter Columbus had heard the name of Paria from the 
mouths of the natives themselves. The Orinoco at its mouth had also the 
name of Uriapari, Yuyapari, or Tyupari. In all these denominations of a 
