Word: caudmont
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...jungle. In it were two dead Indians and a 15-year-old boy who was almost dead. The nine-year-old and 15-year-old were taken to the hospital of the Colombian Petroleum Co. While they were being nursed back to strength, Ethnologists Jean Caudmont and Francisco Vélez Arango of Bogotá hurried to Petrolea...
...Words. Learning their language has been a slow process. The boys would not cooperate, but Vélez and Caudmont eavesdropped on their conversation and jotted down the phonetic elements that form their speech. Then they began to catch whole words and could give meanings to some of them. Now they have a list of 180 words, many of which seem to be related to the language of the fierce Caribs* lived in the Lesser Antilles. Some of the boys' gestures, familiar to ethnologists, suggest that the Motilones may practice human sacrifice...
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