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84 BUEEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 44 The province of Burica extended toward the east to the Llanos of Chiriqui, and formed a part gf the government of Quepo. It belongs today to the district of Punta Arenas. The Terrabas, who have given their name to the river formerly called the Goto, do not belong to the tribes of the Pacific Slope. They were brought to the location there, which they now occupy, in Aldea or Terraba, partly by the persuasion of the mis- sionaries, partly by force, having been obliged to abandon the rough mountains to the north about the headwaters of the Tilorio or Rio de la Estrella, the Yurquin, and the Rovalo, about the year 1697. They have been variously called Terbis, Terrebes, Terrabas, and Tirribies, but there are no differences of dialect between them and their relatives to the north, other than would necessarily take place in any tongue from a separation of this length. At the time of the Conquest, therefore, the tribes occupying the territory of Costa Rica were Nahuas, Mangues, Guetares, Viceitas, Terrabas, Changuenes, Guaymies, Quepos, Cotos, and Borucas. ... It is almost impossible to determine the ethnic affinities of the Guetares as long as no vocabularies of their tongue can be found, though such were certainly written by such able linguists as Fray Pedro de Betanzos, Fray Lorenzo de Bienve- nida, Fray Juan Babtista, and other Franciscans, who founded missionary establishments and taught the natives around Cartage; but the testimony of archaeology proves that if they were not related to the Nahuas, they were subject to their influence, perhaps through the active commerce they had with the Chorotegas and Nahuas about the gulf of Nicoya. ... As to the Guaymies, Terrabas, Changuenes, and Borucas, their affinities to the tribes to the east of them are well marked, and it would not be surprising if they were also closely related to the natives between Paria and Darien, and even with the Chibchas of Colombia, as has been maintained by Brinton. GUATUSO The eastern and western boundaries of the Guatusan area on the map are based largely on inference, rather than on positive evidence. That the tribe occupied the valley of the Rio Frio to the San Juan river, and the region about the headwaters of the former, is the general consensus of the authorities. There is some evidence also that they frequently wandered down the San Carlos river, and Carl Sapper (1 : 31) speaks of a small body on a branch of the Sarapiqui. Gabb (483) states merely that, at the time of his visit They occupy a part of the broad plains north and east of the high volcanic chain of North-Western Costa Rica and south of the great lake of Nicaragua, especially about the headwaters of the Rio Frio. Fernandez (3:676) says: The lands occupied by the Guatusos are veiy extensive, level, fertile, and intersected by navigable rivers, with a slight incline from the right bank of the San Juan river to the Central Cordillera, which divides the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific. Bishop Thiel (2 : 12) says they live dispersed in the skirts of the Cerro Pelado, of the Tenorio, and on the banks of the affluents of the Rio Frio, principally between the Pataste, the Muerte, the Cucaracha, and the Venado. He appears to have succeeded in obtaining a vocabulary of their language, judging from that given in his Apuntes —
THOMAS] INDIAN" LANGUAGES OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 85 Lexicograficos. As indicating the southern boundary may be cited the statement by Gabb (484) that the town of San Ramon is "not far from the borders of the Guatuso country." Attention is directed Hkewise to what is said of this tribe by Peralta in the extract from his paper given above. As will be seen by reference to the List of Families and Tribes on the map, the writer has followed the philologists in placing the Guatusan dialect in the Chibchan family. This relation appears to be borne out by the vocabularies, though not to a very marked extent. GUETARE (Synonym: Huetare) Doctor Brinton (3 : 146) at first associated this idiom with theChiapanecan linguistic stock, but afterward (4: 498) decided from material which had come into his possession that it pertained to the Talamancan linguistic group. While it is very probable that Doctor Brinton is correct in his later conclusion, which is here followed, the evidence he presents is not entirely satisfactory. This consists in the com- parison of very brief vocabularies, as follows:
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