The Natural History of the Varieties of ManLatham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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The Natural History of the Varieties of Man
Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Ethnology
_Parts about N.L. 35°._--Vocabularies of the American Exploring
Expedition for--
_a._ La Soledad.
_b._ San Miguel, about fifty miles south-east of La Soledad.
_c._ The San Antonio of Dr. Coulter. Published in the paper of Dr.
Scouler's, already quoted.
_d._ The San Luis Obispo.--_Ditto._
_e._ The Santa Clara of the Mithridates.
_For the parts between N.L. 35° and N.L. 32-1/2°._--Here, as hitherto,
our knowledge is limited to the tribes on the coast.
_a._ The Santa Barbara, of Dr. Coulter.--Journal of Geographical
Society.
_b._ _c._ The San Juan Capistrano, the same as the Netela of the United
States' Exploring Expedition.
_d._ The San Gabriel of Dr. Coulter, the same as the Kij of the United
States' Exploring Expedition.
_e._ The San Diego of Dr. Coulter.
The SS. Gabriel and Juan Capistrano, are more closely allied than any
other two of Dr. Coulter's. Besides which there seems to be between
them, a regular letter-change of the _l_ and _r_. In San Juan
Capistrano, whilst but one word ends in _r_, _maharr=five_, several
end in _l_; as _shul=star_, _ul=arrow_, _nol=chief_, _amaigomal=boy_,
_shungal=woman_; whereas, the San Gabriel has no terminations in _l_,
but many in _r_, as _touarr=arrow_, _tomearr=chief_, _tokor=woman_, &c.
ENGLISH. SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO. SAN GABRIEL.
_Moon._ mioil. muarr.
_Water._ pal. paara.
_Earth._ ekhel. ungkhur.
_Salt._ engel. ungurr.
_Hot._ khalek. oro(?).
South of San Diego, the land narrows itself into the peninsula of Old
California. Here we have--
1. _The Cochimi._--If the area of the Cochimi dialects (of which there
are four, said to differ from each other as much as the Spanish and the
French) extend as far north as N.L. 33°, the San Diego vocabulary most
probably represents one of them.
2. _The Waikuru._--called also the _Monk_[145] or _Moqui_(?), and of
which the following dialects are enumerated--
_a._ The _Cora_(?)[145]. Extinct, or nearly so.
_b._ The Uchitee, or Utshi. Extinct.
_c._ The Aripe. Probably extinct.
_d._ The Layamon of Loretto, known to us by a vocabulary.
3. The Pericu.--Probably extinct. Spoken at the southern extremity of
the island from N.L. 24°, to Cape St. Lucas.
4(?). _The Ikas._--By the unknown author of the _"Nachrichten von der
Amerikanischen Halbinsel Kalifornien_" (Mannheim, 1773), who was a
Jesuit missionary in the Peninsula, the _Ikas_, a fourth family, is
enumerated amongst the Old Californians.
5(?). The _Picos_, too, or _Ficos_, of Bägert, may possibly represent a
separate family. More probably, however, they are _Ikas_, or sections
of some better known division of the Old Californian population.
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