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necessary to give in this preliminary sketch. It may be stated, 
however, that Ribas (145) says the language of the Ahome was 
the same as that of the Guazave, and different from that of the 
Zoe (which is referred to farther on). Hervas (320) says the Ahome 
spoke a dialect of Hiaqui (he uses this name Hiaqui as equivalent 
to Cinaloa; see Orozco y Berra, 1: 34), and the same as that spoken 
by the Guazave. Ribas (153) says the Comopori spoke the same 
language as the Ahome. Brinton is therefore in error in uniting 
the Ahome with the Pima, as they and the other pueblos mentioned 
in this connection, except Zuaque, spoke the Vacoregue dialect. 
The names Oguera (Ohuera), Cahuimeto, and Nio, denoting three 
dialects marked by Orozco y Berra on his map, along the southern 
border of the Cahita territory, near the Vacoregue, are placed in his 
list of extinct idioms (1:61). Comopori indicates a supposed sub- 
tribe, but is not represented on his map. Chicorata and Basopa 
are given in his list of languages, and are mentioned (1:334) as on 
the Sinaloa river 7 leagues east of Ohuera; their languages are dis- 
tinct and the two peoples speak ‘‘el Mexicano.”’ 
Of the Comopori, Orozco y Berra speaks as follows (1:35): 
About the embouchure of the Rio del Fuerte live the Ahomes, and thence toward 
the south along the coast the Vacoregues, Batucaris, Comoporis, and the Guazaves; 
of the same family of the Cahitas, the idiom, the dialect of the principal one, named 
the Guazave or Vacoregue. Balbi conjectures that the Ahome and the Comopori are 
very diverse dialects or sister languages of the Guazave. This is not correct; all the 
pueblos spoke the same idiom, and there was no particular Ahome or Comopori. 
This disposes of Comopori. As the Ahome spoke the same lan- 
guage as the Vacoregue and Guazave, the last two, so far as language 
is concerned, are, in fact, synonymous terms. 
Cahuimeto and Ohuera are placed by Orozco y Berra in his list of 
extinct languages. His evidence for considering these as distinct . 
and as once spoken in the area he has marked on his map appears 
to have been obtained chiefly from Zapata (407). However, Orozco 
y Berra makes a mistake in his notes (1:334), referring to Ribas.1 
It is there stated that six or seven leagues southeast of the pueblo 
of Sinaloa was the pueblo of Ohuera, in which and in the vicinity 
thereof were spoken two languages, ‘‘distintas,” called Cahuimeto 
and Ohuera, though at the time Zapata wrote (1678) the Mexican 
(Aztec) language had already come into general use, ultimately, as we 
may suppose, displacing them, as they appear to have been extinct when 
Orozco y Berra wrote his Geografia (1857-1863), and also probably 
when Alegre wrote his Historia (1766-1773), as he makes no mention 
of them, though he speaks of missions and Indians of the region re- 
ferred to. As they resided on the Sinaloa (not Rio del Fuerte, but Sin- 
aloa of modern maps) and along the southeastern border of the Cahita 
1The pages he cites are those of Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th ser., I. 
