[464] Proceedings of the Royal Geog. Society, 1889, p. 501.
[465] Muratori, Il Cristianesimo Felice, p. 27 (Venezia, 1743). Father Fernandez gives the names of 69 bands of the Manacicas (Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses, Tom. II., p. 174).
[466] A grammar of it has been edited by MM. Adam and Henry, Arte de la lengua Chiquita, Paris, 1880. (Bibliothèque Linguistique Américaine, Tom. VI.) The sub-divisions of the Chiquitos are so numerous that I refrain from encumbering my pages with them. See D’Orbigny, L’Homme Américain, Tom. II., p. 154, and authorities there quoted.
[467] Hervas, Catalogo de las Lenguas Conocidas, Tom. I., p. 159.
[468] Alcide D’Orbigny, L’Homme Américain, Vol. I., p. 356, sq. Among the D’Orbigny MSS. in the Bibliothèque Nationale, I found an inedited grammar and dictionary of the Yurucari language. It would be very desirable to have this published, as our present knowledge of the tongue rests on a few imperfect vocabularies. The work is doubtless that by P. la Cueva, mentioned in H. Ludewig, Lit. of Amer. Aborig. Languages, p. 206; but the author and editor of that work were in error in classing the Tacana and Maropa as members of the Yurucari stock. They belong to a different family.
[469] L’Homme Américain, Tom. I., p. 374.
[470] Scottish Geographical Magazine, 1890.
[471] E. Heath, Kansas City Review, April, 1883. He gives vocabularies of Tacana and Maropa. A devotional work has been printed in Tacana.
[472] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, 1889, p. 498.
[473] De Laet, quoted in Mithridates, Th. III., Ab. II., s. 577.