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Topia as another language or dialect of the group, which idea Vater 
has carried into his Mithridates (11, pt. 3, 138-139), though admitting 
relationship with Acaxee. Balbi makes it distinct from the latter; 
but Orozco y Berra (1:319) differs wholly from this opinion, con- 
sidering the two as the same language. He quotes (1:314) manu- 
script authority showing Topia to be merely the name of a province 
or district. 
Ahumada (96), writing in 1608, makes the Hume a “nacion”’ 
distinct from the Jijime, though speaking the same language. Ribas 
(562) says these Indians inhabit the highest part of the sierra as 
one goes eastward. Alegre (11,199) also calls the Hume a “‘nacion”’ 
and says the name was given to them from the configuration of the 
natural defenses of their country. Hervas (327) expresses the opinion 
that the Hume (Huime, as he writes it) were related to the Jijime. 
Orozco y Berra also holds that both the Hume and Hina were related 
to, or rather were o‘fshoots of, the Jijime. 
Alegre, speaking of the Hina (11, 195), says they inhabited the most 
profound breaks (‘‘profundisimas quebradas”’) of the center of the 
sierra and the margin of the Rio Piaztla, and spoke a diverse lan- 
guage. Notwithstanding this evidence, Orozco y Berra, who per- 
haps had additional data, although recognizing the Hume and the 
Hina as separate or distinct peoples, and giving them in his list of 
tribes, omits them from his list of languages, thereby expressing his 
belief that they did not speak distinct idioms. It is considered 
safest to follow his example. 
In this connection it may be as well to refer to the Huite. Ribas 
(207) says their language was different from that of the Cinaloa (Ya- 
qui group). Orozco y Berra (1: 333) says they were a warlike tribe, 
ut open strife with all their neighbors, and were anthropophagi. 
Their location was in the sierra, about ‘‘seven leagues from the Sina- 
loas.”” He adds that the name, which signifies “ arrow”’ in Cahita, indi- 
cates relationship of idiom to this language. Although he gives the 
name in his list of languages, he omits it from the classification, map, 
and extinct idioms. It has been omitted from the classified list in 
this paper, and from the map, but with some doubt. 
Cora 
(Synonyms: Chora, Chota, Nayarita) 
The people speaking this language live in the Sierra de Nayarit 
and on the Rio de Jesus Maria, in the state of Jalisco. They are the 
most southerly tribe of what may be termed the Sonoran group of 
the Nahuatlan family. 
Orozco y Berra, whose mapping is followed substantially in refer- 
ence to the Cora territory, has marked this area according to the best 
