Identifier: americanauniver08beac (find matches)
Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860-
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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d with their presentsouthern abode. The Mayan stock, creators of the civiliza-tion of Central America, according to their owntraditions, came from somewhere to the north,—■the position of the Huastecan branch of thisstock north of Vera Cruz suggests that theMayan emigrants from the home-land skirtedalong the Gulf of Mexico from some region con-siderably to the north. The Arawakan stock (including the nativesof the Bahamas and the Antilles, except theintrusive Caribs) had an extension in SouthAmerica comparable only to that of the Algon-kians and Athapascans in the northern half ofthe continent,—■ from the high Paraguay to theGoajiran peninsula in Venezuela, and in itsgreatest expansion from the Xingu to theAmazon and Orinoco. Its primitive habitat wasin some part of the Brazilian interior, probablybetween the Xingu and the Paraguay, the gen-eral trend of their migrations having been north-ward. The Cariban stock, another very exten-sive people, who at the time of the Colombian
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INDIANS discovery were to lie found 111 tile smaller WestIndian islands, and llie northern pari of the eon tinenl from the Essiquibo in Guiana to aboutthe Isthmus of Panama, came originally, as thepresence oi the Carib Bakairi on the Xinguindicates, from the high interior of Brazil, at the soune-, ot the Xingu and Tapajos. I he Tupian stock were widely extended atthe time of the discovery along the Atlanticcoast region from the l.a Plata to the Amazon,with branches scattered along the Paraguay andthe Madeira to the foot of the Andes. Theirprimitive home, Brinton, with reason, assumesto have been in the central highland countryto the east of Bolivia. The general direction ofthe earliest migrations of this stock was there-fore southward (down the Paraguay to theAtlantic), after which the Tupi branch followedthe coast to the Amazon. The Tapuyan stock,who once occupied the region between the Xinguand the Atlantic coast (from the latter theyhave been driven by the Tupis), are probablythe o

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