The Ethnology of the British Colonies and DependenciesLatham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies
Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Ethnology
2. _The Warow_, _Waraw_, _Warau_, or _Guarauno_.--These are the Indians
of the Delta of the Orinoco, and the parts between that river and the
Pomaroon. Their language is peculiar, but by no means without
miscellaneous affinities. They are the fluviatile boatmen of South
America. Their habit of taking up their residence in trees when the
ground is flooded, has given both early and late writers an opportunity
of enlarging upon their semi-arboreal habits.
3. _The Wapisianas_ fall into--
_a._ The _Wapisianas_ Proper--
_b._ The _Atorai_, of which the _Taurai_, or _Dauri_ (the same word
under another form), and the extinct, or nearly extinct, _Amaripas_ are
divisions.
_c._ The _Parauana_.
4. The _Tarumas_, on the Upper Essequibo, have their probable affinities
with the uninvestigated tribes of Central South America.
The Indians of Trinidad are Carib. So are those of St. Vincents. In no
other West Indian islands are there any aborigines extant.
FOOTNOTES:
[71] _Dinni_, _tinni_, _din_, _tin_, &c.=_man_ in the Athabaskan
tongues.
[72] Called also _Carriers_, _Nagail_, and _Chin Indians_; though
whether the last two names are correct is uncertain.
[73] By no means to be confounded with the _Chepewyans_.
[74] The Mohawks, Senekas, Onondagos, Cayugas, Oneidas, Tuskaroras, and
Hurons.
[75] See a paper of Mr. Isbester's in the "Transactions of the British
Association," 1847, p. 121.
[76] Thirty-eight.
[77] This requires modification. The Sitkan practices have already been
noticed.
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