The Native Races (Complete 5 Part Edition). Hubert Howe Bancroft

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СКАЧАТЬ les montagnes à l'ouest de la plaine de Sula. Dans le département de Yoro, ils sont répandus dans le pays depuis la rivière Sulaco jusqu'à la baie de Honduras.' Id., in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1858, tom. clx., pp. 133–4. Yoro department; 'Welche am oberen Lauf der Flüsse und in dem Berg- und Hügellande zwischen der Küste und dem Thale von Olancho wohnen.' Wappäus, Geog. u. Stat., p. 317.

      The Poyas. 'In the triangle between the Tinto, the sea, and the Rio Wanks, or Segovia.' Squier's Cent. Amer., p. 244. 'Inhabit the Poyer mountains, beyond the Embarcadero on the Polyer River.' Young's Narrative, p. 80. 'Den westlichen Theil des Distrikts Taguzgalpa, zwischen den Flüssen Aguan und Barbo.' Hassel, Mex. Guat., p. 389. 'Inhabit the heads of the Black and Patook rivers.' Bell, in Lond. Geog. Soc., Jour., vol. xxxii., p. 258.

      The Towkas, 'bewohnen die südlichen Gegenden des Distrikts (Taguzgalpa) und das Gebirge.' Hassel, Mex. Guat., pp. 390–1. 'Their principal residence is at the head of Patook River.' Young's Narrative, p. 87. 'They dwell along the Twaka river which is a branch of the Prinz Awala.' Bell, in Lond. Geog. Soc., Jour., vol. xxxii., p. 258.

      The 'Toonglas inhabit along the other branch of the same river.' Ib.

      The Smoos 'inhabit the heads of all the rivers from Blewfields to Patook.' Id., p. 256.

      The Cookras 'reside about one hundred and thirty miles from its mouth' (the Rio Escondido). Strangeways' Mosquito Shore, p. 30.

      The Caribs 'now occupy the coast from the neighborhood of the port of Truxillo to Carataska Lagoon. … Their original seat was San Vincent, one of what are called the Leeward Islands, whence they were deported in a body, by the English, in 1798, and landed upon the then unoccupied island of Roatan, in the Bay of Honduras.' They afterwards removed to the main land 'in the vicinity of Truxillo, whence they have spread rapidly to the eastward. All along the coast, generally near the mouths of the various rivers with which it is fringed, they have their establishments or towns.' Bard's Waikna, p. 316. 'Now settled along the whole extent of coast from Cape Gracias à Dios to Belize.' Froebel's Cent. Amer., p. 185. 'Dwell on the sea coast, their first town, Cape Town, being a few miles to the westward of Black River.' Young's Narrative, pp. 71, 122, 134. In Roatan: 'Die Volksmenge besteht aus Caraiben und Sambos, deren etwa 4,000 auf der Insel seyn sollen.' Hassel, Mex. Guat., p. 386. 'Unter den Caraibendörfern sind zu nennen: Stanu Creek … unfern im S. von Belize und von da bis zur Südgrenze Settee, Lower Stanu Creek, Silver Creek, Seven Hills und Punta Gorda.' Wappäus, Geog. u. Stat., p. 300. See also: Sivers, Mittelamerika, pp. 154, 179; Morelet, Voyage, tom. ii., p. 289.

      The Ramas extend from Greytown to Blewfields, a region 'uninhabited except by the scanty remnant of a tribe called Ramas.' 'Inhabit a small island at the southern extremity of Blewfields Lagoon; they are only a miserable remnant of a numerous tribe that formerly lived on the St. John's and other rivers in that neighbourhood. A great number of them still live at the head of the Rio Frio, which runs into the St. John's River at San Carlos Fort.' Bell, in Lond. Geog. Soc., Jour., vol. xxxii., pp. 242, 259. 'Rama Cay, in Blewfiels Lagoon. This small island is the refuge of a feeble remnant of the once powerful Rama tribe.' Pim and Seemann's Dottings, p. 278.

      The Mosquitos inhabit 'the whole coast from Pearl Key Lagoon to Black River, and along the banks of the Wawa and Wanx, or Wanks Rivers for a great distance inland.' Bell, in Lond. Geog. Soc., Jour., vol. xxxii., p. 250. 'L'intérieur du pays est occupé par la nation sauvage et indomptable des Mosquitos-Sombos. Les côtes, surtout près le cap Gracias à Dios, sont habitées par une autre tribu d'Indiens que les navigateurs anglais ont appelés Mosquitos de la côte.' Malte-Brun, Précis de la Géog., tom. vi., p. 472. 'An dem Ende dieser Provinz (Honduras), nahe bey dem Cap, Gratias-a-Dios, findet man die berühmte Nation der Mosquiten.' Delaporte, Reisen, tom. x., p. 404. 'Nearly the whole coast of Honduras; and their most numerous tribe exists near the Cape Gracios á Dios.' Bonnycastle's Span. Amer., vol. i., p. 172. 'Ocupan el terreno de mas de sesenta leguas, que corren desde la jurisdiccion de Comaniagua, hasta la de Costa-Rica.' Revista Mex., tom. i., p. 404. 'Die Sambo, oder eigentlichen Mosquitoindianer welche den grössten Theil der Seeküste bis zum Black river hinauf und die an derselben gelegenen Savannen bewohnen.' Mosquitoland, Bericht, p. 19. 'Inhabiting on the Main, on the North side, near Cape Gratia Dios; between Cape Honduras and Nicaragua.' Dampier's Voyages, vol. i., p. 7. 'Inhabit a considerable space of country on the continent of America, nearly extending from Point Castile, or Cape Honduras, the southern point of the Bay of Truxillo, to the northern branch of the river Nicaragua, called usually St. Juan's; and comprehending within these limits nearly 100 leagues of land on the sea coast, from latitude 11 to 16 deg.' Henderson's Honduras, pp. 211–12. The Sambos 'inhabit the country from Sandy Bay to Potook.' Strangeways' Mosquito Shore, p. 330. 'The Sambos, or Mosquitians, inhabit the sea coast, and the savannas inland, as far west as Black River.' Young's Narrative, p. 71. 'The increase and expansion of the Caribs has already driven most of the Sambos, who were established to the northward and westward of Cape Gracias á Dios, into the territory of Nicaragua, southward of the Cape.' Squier's Honduras [Lond., 1870,] p. 169; Id., Cent. Amer., p. 228.

      ISTHMIAN NATIONS.

      The Isthmians, the last sub-division of this group, embrace the people of Costa Rica, together with the nations dwelling on the Isthmus of Panamá, or Darien, as far as the gulf of Urabá, and along the river Atrato to the mouth of the Napipi, thence up the last-named river to the Pacific Ocean. 'The Indian tribes within the territory of Costarrica, distinguished by the name of Parcialidades, are the Valientes, or most eastern people of the state; the Tiribees, who occupy the coast from Bocatoro to the Banana; the Talamancas and Blancos, who inhabit the interior, but frequent the coast between the Banana and Salt Creek; the Montaños and Cabecares, who are settled in the neighbourhood of the high lands bounding Veragua, and the Guatusos, inhabiting the mountains and forest between Esparsa and Bagases, and towards the north of these places.' Galindo, in Lond. Geog. Soc., Jour., vol. vi., p. 134. From Boca del Toro towards the west coast dwell the Viceitas, Blancos, Valientes, Guatusos, Tiribis, and Talamancas. Wagner and Scherzer, Costa Rica, p. 554. Blancos, Valientes, and Talamancas 'entlang der Ostküste zwischen dem Rio Zent und Boca del Toro, im Staate Costa Rica.' Id., p. 573.

      The Guatusos 'vom Nicaragua-See an den Rio Frio aufwärts und zwischen diesem und dem San Carlos bis zum Hochlande.' Wappäus, Geog. u. Stat., p. 357. 'Inhabit a territory lying between the Merivales mountains on the west, the lake of Nicaragua and the San Juan river on the north, the Atlantic shore on the east, and the table land of San José upon the south.' … The Rio Frio 'head-waters are the favorite haunt or habitation of the Guatusos … occupy the north-east corner of Costa Rica.' Boyle's Ride, vol. i., pref., pp. xii., xix., p. 298. They inhabit 'the basin of the Rio Frio.' Squier's Cent. Amer., p. 405; Id., in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1856, tom. cli., p. 5; Id., in Hist. Mag., vol. iv., p. 65; Vigne's Travels, vol. i., p. 77.

      The Guetares 'viven ençima de las sierras del puerto de la Herradora é se extienden por la costa deste golpho al Poniente de la banda del Norte hasta el confin de los Chorotegas.' Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iii., p. 108.

      The Blancos 'welche ungefähr 5 Tagereisen südöstlich von Angostura in den Bergen hausen.' Wagner and Scherzer, Costa Rica, pp. 556, 554.

      The Valientes and Ramas, 'zwischen dem Punta Gorda und der Lagune von Chiriqui.' Mosquitoland, Bericht, p. 9.

      Inhabiting the Isthmus were numerous tribes speaking different languages, mentioned by early writers only by the name of the chief, which was usually identical with that of both town СКАЧАТЬ