The Tacana dialects present a number of verbal analogies to Kechua and Aymara; so many in fact that they testify to long inter-communion between the stocks, though I think not to a radical identity. I present a few: TACANA. KECHUA. Man, _reanci_, _runa_. Water, _jene_, _una_. Hand, _ma_, _maqui_. Foot, _quatri_, _chaqui_. House, _etai_, _uta_ (Aymara). Stone, _tumu_, _rumi_. Star, _emata_, _matti_. Lightning, _ilapa_, _illapa_. Year, _mara_, _mara_. Three, _quimisha_, _quimsa_. Four, _puschi_, _pusi_ (Aymara). Five, _pischica_, _pichka_. The numerals above “two” have clearly been borrowed from the Kechua-Aymara. There are also a large number of verbal coincidences between the Tacana and the Pano groups, but not enough to allow us to suppose an original unity. The _Samucus_ (Zamucas) embraced a number of sub-tribes dwelling on the northern border of the Chaco, between 18° and 20° south latitude, and about the river Oxuquis. They did not resemble the Chaco stocks, as they were not vagrant hunters, but dwelt in fixed villages, and pursued an agricultural life.[476] Their language was singularly sweet in sound, and was called by D’Orbigny “the Italian of the forest.” They included the following members: SAMUCU LINGUISTIC STOCK. _Careras_. _Cayporotades_. _Coroinos_. _Cuculados_. _Guaranocas_. _Ibirayas_. _Morotocos_. _Potureros_. _Satienos_. _Tapios_. _Ugaronos_. Among these the Morotocos are said to have offered the rare spectacle of a primitive gynocracy. The women ruled the tribe, and obliged the men to perform the drudgery of house-work. The latter were by no means weaklings, but tall and robust, and daring tiger-hunters. The married women refused to have more than two children, and did others come they were strangled.