CONTENTS.
Pl. 1.A.
Pl. 1.
A.
Pl. 2.B.
Pl. 2.
B.
Pl. 3.B.
Pl. 3.
B.
Pl. 4.C.
Pl. 4.
C.
Pl. 5.D.E.
Pl. 5.
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E.
Pl. 6.F.
Pl. 6.
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Pl. 7.F.
Pl. 7.
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Pl. 8.F.
Pl. 8.
F.
Pl. 9.G.
Pl. 9.
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Pl. 10.G.
Pl. 10.
G.
Pl. 11.H.
Pl. 11.
H.
Pl. 12.I.
Pl. 12.
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Pl. 13.K.
Pl. 13.
K.
Pl. 14.L.
Pl. 14.
L.
Pl. 15.M.
Pl. 15.
M.
Pl. 16.N.
Pl. 16.
N.
Pl. 17.O.
Pl. 17.
O.
Pl. 18.P.
Pl. 18.
P.
Pl. 19.Q.
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Q.
Pl. 20.R.
Pl. 20.
R.
Pl. 21.α.
Pl. 21.
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Pl. 22.α.
Pl. 22.
α.
Pl. 23.β.
Pl. 23.
β.
Pl. 24.γ.
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Pl. 25.δ.γ.
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γ.
Pl. 26.ε.
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Pl. 27.ζ.
Pl. 27.
ζ.
Pl. 28.ζ.
Pl. 28.
ζ.
Pl. 29.η.
Pl. 29.
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Pl. 30.θ.
Pl. 30.
θ.
Pl. 31.ι.
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Pl. 32.κ.λ.
Pl. 32.
κ.
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Pl. 34.
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Pl. 35.
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Pl. 37.
Pl. 37.
Pl. 38.
Pl. 38.
Pl. 39.
Pl. 39.
Pl. 40.
Pl. 40.
Pl. 41.Punta del Sapote.Punta de las figuras.
Pl. 41.
Punta del Sapote.
Punta de las figuras.
MAP of NICARAGUA and COSTA RICAto illustrate the journey ofCARL BOVALLIUS1882-1883.
MAP of NICARAGUA and COSTA RICAto illustrate the journey ofCARL BOVALLIUS1882-1883.
Sketch of a Map ofThe Island of ZapaterabyCARL BOVALLIUS.
Sketch of a Map ofThe Island of ZapaterabyCARL BOVALLIUS.
Footnotes:[1]Nicaragua: its people, scenery, monuments, and the proposed interoceanic canal. With numerous original maps and illustrations. In two volumes. London, 1852.[2]I cannot but contradict, on the ground of my own investigations, the suggestion of Squier, that the nomadic tribes on the east coast of Nicaragua were related to the Caribs, and especially «the Melchoras on the river San Juan are certainly of Carib stock». All the individuals of the Simoo, Rama and Melchora tribe, that I have seen and measured, correspond far more, both in general habitus and cranial characters, to the Talamanca Indians and Guatusos, indeed even to the Indios mansos in Chontales and in Northern Nicaragua, than to the Caribs of Honduras who are proved to be true Caribs, or to the Magdalena Indians in Columbia who are supposed to belong to the Carib stock. The differences are so great as to make it probable that Squier’s supposition arises from a confusion of names, more particularly because the name of Caribs was applied to all Indios bravos of eastern Nicaragua during the Spanish time, long before the brave Caribs of S:t Vincent, the last remains of that people in the West-Indies, after a long and hard struggle for freedom were expatriated and carried to Ruatan, from where they transmigrated afterwards of their own will to the opposite coast of Honduras.[3]«Geographical Distribution of the Ancient Central American Civilisation», in Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York, vol. 8, 1870, p. 142.[4]Smithsonian Contributions to knowledge (383), vol. 25. Washington 1885 (1881).[5]See above.[6]Squier, l. c., p. 64, and the plate facing the same page.
Footnotes:
[1]Nicaragua: its people, scenery, monuments, and the proposed interoceanic canal. With numerous original maps and illustrations. In two volumes. London, 1852.
[1]Nicaragua: its people, scenery, monuments, and the proposed interoceanic canal. With numerous original maps and illustrations. In two volumes. London, 1852.
[2]I cannot but contradict, on the ground of my own investigations, the suggestion of Squier, that the nomadic tribes on the east coast of Nicaragua were related to the Caribs, and especially «the Melchoras on the river San Juan are certainly of Carib stock». All the individuals of the Simoo, Rama and Melchora tribe, that I have seen and measured, correspond far more, both in general habitus and cranial characters, to the Talamanca Indians and Guatusos, indeed even to the Indios mansos in Chontales and in Northern Nicaragua, than to the Caribs of Honduras who are proved to be true Caribs, or to the Magdalena Indians in Columbia who are supposed to belong to the Carib stock. The differences are so great as to make it probable that Squier’s supposition arises from a confusion of names, more particularly because the name of Caribs was applied to all Indios bravos of eastern Nicaragua during the Spanish time, long before the brave Caribs of S:t Vincent, the last remains of that people in the West-Indies, after a long and hard struggle for freedom were expatriated and carried to Ruatan, from where they transmigrated afterwards of their own will to the opposite coast of Honduras.
[2]I cannot but contradict, on the ground of my own investigations, the suggestion of Squier, that the nomadic tribes on the east coast of Nicaragua were related to the Caribs, and especially «the Melchoras on the river San Juan are certainly of Carib stock». All the individuals of the Simoo, Rama and Melchora tribe, that I have seen and measured, correspond far more, both in general habitus and cranial characters, to the Talamanca Indians and Guatusos, indeed even to the Indios mansos in Chontales and in Northern Nicaragua, than to the Caribs of Honduras who are proved to be true Caribs, or to the Magdalena Indians in Columbia who are supposed to belong to the Carib stock. The differences are so great as to make it probable that Squier’s supposition arises from a confusion of names, more particularly because the name of Caribs was applied to all Indios bravos of eastern Nicaragua during the Spanish time, long before the brave Caribs of S:t Vincent, the last remains of that people in the West-Indies, after a long and hard struggle for freedom were expatriated and carried to Ruatan, from where they transmigrated afterwards of their own will to the opposite coast of Honduras.
[3]«Geographical Distribution of the Ancient Central American Civilisation», in Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York, vol. 8, 1870, p. 142.
[3]«Geographical Distribution of the Ancient Central American Civilisation», in Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York, vol. 8, 1870, p. 142.
[4]Smithsonian Contributions to knowledge (383), vol. 25. Washington 1885 (1881).
[4]Smithsonian Contributions to knowledge (383), vol. 25. Washington 1885 (1881).
[5]See above.
[5]See above.
[6]Squier, l. c., p. 64, and the plate facing the same page.
[6]Squier, l. c., p. 64, and the plate facing the same page.
Transcriber’s Notes:Typographical errors have been silently corrected.
Transcriber’s Notes:
Typographical errors have been silently corrected.