THE CALIFORNIAN PENINSULA." 399 
APPENDIX. 
Note on the Cora and Waicuri languages, by Francisco Pimentel.* 
Father Ortega refers in various places to the grammar of the Cora language which he in 
tended to write; but the work, if it was ever written, has been lost, since there is no mention 
of it, and it is unknown to bibliographers. 
The Cora dialect is known also by the names of Chora, Chota, and Nayarita. This last 
name comes from the fact that it was spoken, and is still so, in the mountains of Nayarit in 
the State of Jalisco. There is another idiom called Cora in California, which is a dialect of 
the Guaicura or Vaicura, differing from that spoken in Jalisco. Ihave compared various 
words of the Guaicura and the Cora of Jalisco, and have found them entirely different. 
Ezamples. 
Cora. Vaicura. 
Weitere ponte ea ceataes Miyaoppawsiscse ce tees ee Are. 
SOREL oan we Cee acts AU Petehbe sez. sibs sie Dai. 
Liu ED ah LO, SEO Li ty Munaicmie? se.) in 8 226 Rus 
Wie te) HO OU Mevath gs ps4... oe eee i 
Anders Sis DOSS Boe fs Apa Ee SUR eae cals Tschie 
IGOR eee 2h Passe selec PAVIG = reece oescliaiau ot Seleas Taupe. 
Barth orjworld 22/22. \s5 ssic3 @hianacat 5244-2 esses - Datemba. 
IIPOVO eiceG: aa. Wo Reba s Me hteyas- sc bicigs Sieroe ston! snue Aenha. 
1 EN 00 (Paes Cay eee SS Gueah tee oc cceisgen oe Bue 
To give ---.-------------- Rie eel =Reeraatt @ we vy ae Ken 
10257. SA ee ee Se, se age Met Catieoctenas cacencleeasee Untairi. 
Marpardon 25. 4. aseectes MIROUDIA 5S) ecickl cise Stew Kuitscha. 
HiGwh---2 2. ASE REE OR mor ace MUP ati Saop cheese the. Set Pae. 
Wbedient 4.< - 42. se tess ee Teatzahuateacame---.------ Tebarrakere. 
DD he eet hus manomieinscacces LUNG) cose SRR Se ES! Ra. 
SWE AE oot oorioee ADIOS ooo ayo Se ee ee Ue. 
PEG AE Se he oe terse, ba ey Neapues Nea aes -=/-£ eases oe Be. 
gC) TS peeps are ae er ora MPIC, BP elated wind Pe Aa Ei. 
ONS a Bs ie A ene OHS BOD = pis seria, oa mnine Tutau. 
WV Glee ae ele seat amtse| VEC cuccigalsamicles ss steeecimie'> Cate. 
PGi ie Es OSes a ee a AMMO AT ee olden cemtnis sioe =) NEetTs 
Wie Ses Re se Ee Su Be ete GNM.) AED 2) 5a) - elarele mlm Tucava. 
WAP o- Boece beebo ds oeet ee se IN ae ean SER Be SS eOr Be, me, mi, m. 
JIS? G4606 hongidé: SBE SS SSE 52) 7? Bee ae SSS SEE eee Hi, e, e 
13s) Sa SoS CARE ees oa =f Jono lin tyes aah eeseessoec on TOs ts 
Onn teae eer as = a2) eee Bie Bnet lye ate sere eis awe Kepe 
Iie SU pee See ae eee eee Keme Seeeeiese= += > Secrets Deve 
BOM eee ae eh alane <pjo aoe PGE ie eee ose See = eae Tina. 
AGEN Cee Sines ajclaniets WEN OR CSO je Se eeeeee cae Amukiri. 
SUNG tice S RSS E SG Nope eOesEes Tiperie, tiyaoh. -.-.--..----| Tschanu. 
INOSBE eet osm ckicewcocect MP ZOTIt eso Lace ce ete ee ee Namu. 
NOTE RELATIVE TO THE AUTHOR.—The only facts concerning the author, which I was 
‘able to obtain while engaged in translating his work, are contained in De Backer’s Biblio- 
théque des Ecrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus, Liége 1859. Vol. v, p. 28. 
The author, whose name is given here as Jacob Begert, was born (1717) at Schlettstadt 
(Upper Rhine.) He went to California in 1751 and preached the Gospel there till the decree 
of Charles III tore the Jesuits from their missions. On returning to Europe, he retired to 
Neuburg in Bavaria, where he died in the month of December, 1772, Clavigero stands as 
authority for ascribing the ‘‘ Nachrichten” to him, and it is also mentioned that the ‘‘ Berlin- 
sche litterarische Wochenblatt,” (1777, vol. ii, p. 625,) contains an extract of the work. 
Meusel’s large work on German authors, entitled ‘‘Das gelehrte Deutschland,” is given as 
the source from which these statements are derived. 
The ‘‘Nachrichten’’ appeared first in print in 1772, the same year in which the author died, 
who consequently could have survived the publication of his work only a short time, The 
copy in my hands, which was printed in 1773, is not properly a second edition, but merely a 
reprint, in which the most glaring typographical errors are corrected. 
* Boletin de la Sociedad Mexicana de Geografia y Estadistica, Mexico, 1862, tomo viii, 
‘num. 11, p. 603, &c. 
