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 THE ARUBA LANGUAGE AND THE PAPIAMENTO JARGON.

By Alb. S. Gatschet, Washington, D.C.

(Read before the American Philosophical Society, July 18, 1884.)

Aruba is the westernmost isle of the group of islands which extends from east to west along the northern coast of South America at a short distance from the mainland. It lies north of the peninsula of Para-