The native races of the Pacific states of North America / by Hubert Howe Bancroft.

Date:
1875
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    able 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 Land. Oeog. 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.’ Pirn and Seeniann’s Boilings, 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 Bond. Oeog. Soc., Jour., vol. xxxii., p. 250. ‘L’interieur du pays est occupe par la nation sauvage et indomptable des Mosquitos-Sombos. Les cotes, surtout pres le cap Gracias a Dios, sont habitees par une autre tribu d’Indiens que les navigateurs anglais ont appek's Mosquitos de la cote.’ Malte-Bmn, Precis de la Oeog., tom! vi., p. 472. An dem Ende dieser Provinz (Honduras), nahe bey dem Cap, Gratias-a- Dios, findet man die beruhmte Nation der Mosquiten.’ Belaporie, Reisen, tom. X., p. 404. ‘ Nearly the whole coast of Honduras; and their most numerous tribe exists near the Cape Gracios a Dios.’ Bor.nycastle’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 grossten Theil der Seekiiste bis zum Black river hinauf und die an derselben belegenen Savannen bewohnen.’ Mosquitoland, Bericht, p. 19. ‘ Inhabiting on the Main, on the North side, near Cape Gratia Dios; between Cape Honduras and Nicaragua.’ Bampier's Voyages, vol. i., p. 7. ‘Inhabit a considerable space of country on the continent of America, nearly extend- ing 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.’ Strange- ways’ 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, jp. 71. ‘The increase and expansion of the Caribs has already driven most of the Sambos, who were established to the northward and west- ward of Cape Gracias a Dios, into the territory of Nicaragua, southward of the Cape.’ Squier’s Honduras [Lond., 1870,] p. 169; Id., Cent. Amer., p. 228. The Isthmians, the last sub-division of this group, embrace the people of Costa Rica, together with the nations dwelling on the Isthmus of Panama, or Darien, as far as the gulf of Uraba, 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 Tala- mancas and Blancos, who inhabit the interior, but frequent the coast between the Banana and Salt Creek; the Montaiios 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 Baga-