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early authorities, most of them in manuscript documents. Reference 
is made, however, to other authorities treating of the subject. 
Alegre, after referring to the rugged, mountainous character of the 
district, says (111, 196) it jos on the east Nueva-Vizcaya, and on the 
north, west, and south Nueva-Galicia, extending from 22° to 23° 
N.lat. Pimentel simply says the people lived in the Sierra de Nayarit 
but is more specific in relation to the subdivisions of the tribe men- 
tioned below. Orozco y Berra (1:279) says that, according to Mota 
Padilla (510), the area was included between 21° and 23° N. lat. and 
261° and 265° longitude; and according to Revillagigedo, between 
21° and 24° N. lat. and 266° and 269° “de long. del meridiano de 
Tenerife.’ Following the chart of Narvaez, he concludes the extent 
to be between 21° 20’ and 23° N. lat. and 5° and 6° W. = from 
the meridian of Mexico City. 
Joseph de Ortega, whose Vocabulario en Lengua Castellana y 
Cora was first published in 1732, says (p. 7, reprint of 1888) that 
this language consisted of three dialects: Muutzicat, spoken by 
those living in the center of the sierra; Teacuacitzica, spoken by 
those living in the lower parts of the sierra toward the west; and 
Ateanaca (sometimes contracted to Até) spoken by the Ateacari living 
on the banks of the Rio Nayarit. He considers the last as the Cora 
proper. However, the differences were so slight that subsequent 
writers do not appear to have considered them dialects representing 
subtribal distinctions. Orozco y Berra (1: 281-282) includes the Cora 
in his Opata-Tarahumar-Pima family, and gives as divisions the 
Cora proper, Nayarit, Tecualme, Gecualme, and Colotlan. Nayarit, 
the name the people applied to themselves, is merely a synonym of 
Cora. Although Tecualme and Gecualme are included by Orozco y 
Berra in his list of languages, there is no evidence that they indicate 
dialectic divisions. Moreover, he gives them (1:280) as synonymous. 
(For Colotlan, see Tepecano, etc., below.) 
HuvIcHou 
(Synonym: Guichola) 
A tribe, formerly counted as a subtribe or division of the Cora of 
Jalisco, living in the rugged sierras on the east of the Cora, by whose 
territory they are surrounded on the north, west, and south, the 
Tepecano joining them on the east. Their language is closely 
related to the Cora, causing some early authorities to classify them 
as a division of the latter; but recent investigations, chiefly by 
Hrdli¢ka, have led to the conclusion that they are more closely 
related to the Guachichile than to the Cora, and are apparently an 
offshoot of that tribe. This confirms the suggestion thrown out by 
Orozco y Berra (1: 282), ‘‘que los Huzcholas son los restos de los anti- 
