Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 1.—Panama Natives with Pack Horses Going to Fig. 2.—Town of Chagres. PANAMA AND ITS PEOPLE BELL. 623 Little of their origin is known, but Brinton (35) and others sug-gest they are probably descended from the Mayas of Yucatan. Ac-cording to Pinart, who made a collection of their idioms, the Dorachosdid not believe in a God that abode in the skies, as the Guaymieshave always done, but believed that the great spirit lived in theVolcan de Chiriqui, and when they were angered at the god theywould avenge themselves
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 1.—Panama Natives with Pack Horses Going to Fig. 2.—Town of Chagres. PANAMA AND ITS PEOPLE BELL. 623 Little of their origin is known, but Brinton (35) and others sug-gest they are probably descended from the Mayas of Yucatan. Ac-cording to Pinart, who made a collection of their idioms, the Dorachosdid not believe in a God that abode in the skies, as the Guaymieshave always done, but believed that the great spirit lived in theVolcan de Chiriqui, and when they were angered at the god theywould avenge themselves by shooting their arrows toward the crateras a sign of their displeasure. They constructed tombs of flatstones laid together with much care in which they placed costly jarsand urns filled with food and wine. This was done for their greatmen, and for the lesser ones they dug trenches filled in with stonesand in which gourds of maize or wine v/ere substituted for thepottery (24, v. 4). The Dorachos were brave, honest, and intelli-gent and, in common with all isthmian tribes, fearless of 1674-1681 war was made on
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