The Isthmus of Panama leads us from North to South America. Here the first tribe of importance which presents itself is—
THE MUYSCA.
Locality.—New Granada. Extinct.
Language.—Peculiar; known, however, only from a few words collected by the Abbate Gilii.—See Mithridates.
Civilization.—The same (or nearly the same) with that of Mexico and Peru.
1. Besides the Muysca, however, there were, most probably, two or three mutually unintelligible languages spoken in the Isthmus of Darien, and the following ten (all now extinct), in New Grenada. 1. The Agnala; 2. the Caivana; 3. the Chimeca; 4. the Kurumene; 5. the Gorrane; 6. the Guaraepoana; 7. the Guarica; 8. the Natagaima; 9. the Cueca; and 10. the Chiaczake.—Mithridates.
We now follow the line of the Andes, omitting for the present the consideration of their eastern declivity, and limiting ourselves to the mountain-range itself and the narrow strip between it and the Pacific. This brings us, probably, through the districts of the 1. Masteles; 2. Chorri; 3, Pichilumbuy; and, 4. Quillacingæ, to the country of the ancient
QUIXOS (QUITOS).
Locality.—Quito.