Note 260 — SOUTH AMERICAN TRIBES.
Reading edition
Bollaert, Antiquarian and Ethnological Researches, etc., pp. 6, 64, etc. The words he gives in Coconuca are:
IN MOGUEX.
Sun, puitchr, piuchr.
Moon, puil, pulue.
Stars, sil, ?
Chief, cashu, ?
Maize, bura, purat.
Bollaert probably quoted these without acknowledgment from Gen. Mosquera, Phys. & Polit. Geog. of New Granada, p. 45 (New York, 1853).