_Aguanos_.
_Alabonos_.
_Amaonos_.
_Cahuaches_.
_Massamaes_.
_Miquianos_.
_Nahuapos_.
_Napeanos_.
_Parranos_.
_Yarrapos_.
Pöppig describes them as agricultural and industrious, and much given to
trade and travel.
In appearance, they are small, dirty and Mongoloid, sharply contrasting
with the Indians of the Huallaga, who are all tall, strong and well
built, with good features.[440]
In conformity to old authorities, Markham classes the _Ardas_ as a
sub-tribe of the Yameos. Their home was between the rivers Napo and
Masso. On the latter they were in immediate contiguity to the Massamaes
(Coleti). There has been published a _Doctrina_ in their language, from
which the Lord’s Prayer is quoted by Ludewig.[441] This version has no
resemblance to the Pater in Yamea contained in the Mithridates; so for
the present I leave the Ardas unclassified.
Higher up the river Javary are a number of tribes speaking related
dialects of what I shall call the _Peba_ stock, though there are some
reasons to consider it a corrupt dialect of the Omagua, and hence related
to the Tupi.