Maypu

See Maipo. May pures (mi-pö-rās'). An Indian tribe of Venezuelan Guiana, on the upper Orinoco and its affluent, the Ventuario. They belong to the Arawak stock, are gentle in disposition, agriculturists, and live in fixed villages. The tribe was formerly very large. It was among the first on the upper Orinoco to be gathered into mi ion villages. Some of the May pures have been amalgamated with the control at i on others viitten Maipures and Mapures . May pure (mi-pö-rā') stock, or Arawak (är'äwäk) stock. An extensive linguistic group of South American Indians, consisting of many tribes which are scattered from southwestern Brazil and Bolivia to Guiana: formerly members of the same stock appear to have occupied nearly all the West Indian Islands. They were found by Columbus on the Bahamas and in the Greater Antilles, and po ibly extended into Florida; but they had recently been driven from the Windward Islands by incursions