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(Uriarte [1776]1986:ibid.) goes on to explain, stating: “Con que entendieron la frase y callaron:
que querían decirles, que eran huidores, que corrían al monte lo mismo que las charapas al río”. 280
8.5 Part III, Section 28
In approximately June 1763, 281 Manuel Ezeguazo, 282 who was the elderly Omagua mayor (Sp.
alcalde) of San Joaquín, died. Uriarte reports the following interaction near to his death:
...éste [Manuel Ezeguazo], que había sido de mucha autoridad entre los Omaguas, me
dijo cerca de morir: “Padre, no te olvidarás de mi hijo Andrés (era de unos siete años);
le darás algún cuchillo”. Yo le respondí: “No sólo eso, sino lo criaré en casa, como mi
hijo, si su madre quiere”. 283
(Uriarte [1776]1986:329)
Uriarte reports that Manuel then uttered (8.6) to his wife.
(8.6) a. Ename ucagrachupi Andrés; taumanu cápuaré, 284 erusu Padre ucacati.
b. Ename ucagrachupi Andrés; taumanucápuaré, erusu Padre ucacati.
c. ename uka1Rasupe Andrés. taumanu[sa]kap1R1, 285 eRusu padre ukakate.
ename
proh
uka1Ra =supe Andrés
be.stingy =appl Andrés
ta= umanu =sakap1R1 eRusu padre uka =kate 286
1sg.ms= die =temp.post take father house =all
‘Don’t be stingy with Andrés. 287 After I die, take him to the Father’s house.’
original: ‘No lo mezquines, llévalo, muerto yo, a casa del Padre.’
(Uriarte [1776]1986:329)
representation of this word in the Jesuit period. For example, although is elsewhere in these texts confused
with /a/, the fact that it follows leads us to believe that it is really in the manuscript (otherwise
should be , given standard Spanish orthographic conventions).
280 Translation (ours): “With which they understood the phrase and quieted down: that they meant to say to them
that they were cowards, that they ran to the forest the same as a charapa [turtle sp.] to the river.”)
281 Uriarte ([1776]1986:329) places the date near to the celebration of Corpus Christi, a Catholic holiday that takes
place 60 days after Easter, which in 1763 fell on April 3.
282 This surname is also spelt (Uriarte [1776]1986:232), and corresponds to the Omagua word 1s1wasu
‘deer’.
283 Translation (ours): ‘This [man], who had a lot og authority among the Omagua, told me close to his death:
“Father, you won’t forget my son Andrés (he was about seven years old); you’ll give him a knife or something”. I
responded to him: “Not just that, but I’ll raise him in my home as my own son, if his mother is willing”.’
284 Note that accent marks are not found in the Lord’s Prayer or catechism fragment, and only once in the full
catechism (see (6.22a)). Their inclusion here is interesting, but difficult to interpret because of their sporadic
appearance.
285 The insertion of sa is supported by Espinosa’s representation of the manuscript (see footnote 288). It is unclear,
however, if Bayle accidentally omitted this sequence sequence of letters in his own representation of the manuscript,
or if Espinosa Pérez inserted it without comment in order to make the utterance intelligible.
286 Note that, unlike the Lord’s Prayer and full catechism, in which =kate is always rendered orthographically as
, Uriarte consistently writes it as in the passages throughout this chapter. The only other attestation
of the representation is in the catechism fragment, in which it occurs once (with elsewhere). This
distribution in orthographic representation is similar to that of maRai ‘thing’ (see footnote 144), although in the
latter case a single orthographic representation () is found throughout the catechism fragment.
287 That is, she is not to be so protective of and/or possessive over her son as to prevent Uriarte from caring for him.
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