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Orozco y Berra (1: 351) mentions them as Lower Pima in 
connection with the Huvagueres, Tehuisos, Basiroas, and 
Tehatas, ‘‘Los Hios, 4 ocho leguas al Este de Tepahue, y los 
Huvagueres y los Tehuisos sus vecinos: mas al Este seguian 
los Basiroas y los Tehatas.”’ 
The Huvaguere have already been referred to above; 
and precisely the same remark applies to the Tehuisos, 
Basiroas, and Tehatas. All these supposed tribes or sub- 
tribes, including the ‘Hios, are located by Orozco y Berra 
between the Tepahue and the Varohio, which are not dis- 
tant one from the other, and, according to his map, would 
lie directly along the border line between the territory of 
the’ Yaqui group and that of the Tarahumare. Although 
Ribas makes frequent mention of the Hios, he does not 
speak of them separately nor refer to their language; he 
makes no mention of any one of the other three names. 
Zapata (384-389), writing some thirty or forty years later, 
and referring to the missions and pueblos of this precise 
section, does not name any one of these four subtribes or 
their idioms, if different. Yet he does refer to the Guaza- 
pare and the Varohio, and to the pueblos of Chinipa, Conicari, 
etc., in the region mentioned, and to the language spoken 
therein. However, Alegre, writing in the following cen- 
tury, speaks of the Hios eight leagues east of the Tepahue 
and five from Comicari [Conicari], of the Huvagueres and 
Tehuisos, their neighbors, and of the Basiroas and Te- 
hatas, a little farther in the sierra. This is evidently 
Orozco y Berra’s authority for his statement, but as the 
statement by Alegre closes with reference to ‘‘otros pue- 
blos,’’ it seems evident that he uses the names mentioned 
as referring to villages. As there are no indications any- 
where, not even in Orozco y Berra’s list of languages, that 
these names bore any relation to distinct idioms, they may 
be eliminated. 
Batucos............... Ribas (359) says they came from the north, and dwelt near 
the friendly ‘‘naciones”—Cumupas, Buasdabas, and Bapis- 
pes, extending down eastward to the Sunas. Kino, Kap- 
pus, and Mange (393) speak of Batuco as a geographical 
term—‘‘los valles y pueblos de Batuco”—but a little 
farther on (400) make mention of the entrance of Padre 
Mendez into the ‘‘nacion” of the Batucos. Zapata (356) 
says the language spoken in the pueblo of Santa Maria de 
Batuco was Tehue. The geographical description gives the 
same location as the preceding. Azpilcueta (in Alegre, 11, 
186), referring to his visit to the Batuco, says their lan- 
guage is not difficult and appears to be much like that of 
Ocoroni. According to Velasco (Orozco y Berra, 1: 348), 
Batuco was one of the pueblos of the Opatas Tegiiis. As 
the name ‘‘Tegiiis” seems to be pronounced Te-gu-is, it is 
possible that Te-hu-e is the same. If this be correct, the 
last two statements agree and the language spoken was 
Opata. The Tahue mentioned farther on must not be 
confounded with Tehue here: the former belonged to 
Sinaloa, the latter to Sonora. However, Orozco y Berra 
