THOMAS] INDIAN LANGUAGES OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 45 
Names oF Tripes IN NORTHEASTERN Mexico NOT CONSIDERED 
SEPARATELY 
This is the proper place to allude to the names of the supposed 
tribes or subtribes of northeastern and eastern Mexico mentioned 
by early Spanish authors, but not marked on the accompanying 
map. As-given in Orozco y Berra’s list, these are numerous, but 
when examined are found to be limited mostly to the present 
states of Coahuila and Tamaulipas, of which, with very few excep- 
tions, nothing more can be said than that they are found in lists or 
merely mentioned without particulars. The present author’s method 
is therefore reversed here, and allusion is made to but very few 
of these names, of which some particulars are available. 
It is quite possible that most of those mentioned as in Coahuila, 
chiefly along the Rio Grande, were Apache and Lipan, especially 
the former. The names near the Gulf coast, in part at least, may 
refer to the remnants of tribes forced thither by the stronger tribes 
of the interior. Orozco y Berra places on his map, on the Rio 
Grande near its mouth, the following names: 
Pintos Comesacapemes Auyapemes 
Tanaquiapemes Catanamepaques Uscapemes 
Ayapaguemes Saulapaguemes Gummesacapemes 
and in Tamaulipas the following: 
Tamaulipecos Caribayes Comecrudos 
Canaynes Mariguanes Malinchenos 
Borrados Panguayes Ancasiguais 
Quinicuanes Anacana Comecamotes 
Tedexenos Cadinias Caramariguanes 
Pasitas Guixolotes Caramiguais 
Tagualilos Pintos? Aretines 
All in the latter list are located by Orozco y Berra in his Tamau- 
lipeco area, and north of Panuco river, while south of the river are 
only the well-known tribes, Huasteca, ete. 
Of these names but little can be said, as all, or nearly all, are now 
extinct. Doctor Gatschet! in 1886 found some twenty-five of the 
Comecrudo at Las Prietas, Tamaulipas. The Cotoname were prac- 
tically extinct, but one man being discovered. He obtained also 
information of the existence at La Volsa of two women of the Pinto, 
or Pakawa, tribe who, it was said, could speak their own language. 
The Cotoname of Doctor Gatschet probably corresponds with Cata- 
namepaques of the above list. So far as known, these were the 
only tribes not wholly extinct at the time of Doctor Gatschet’s visit 
(1886). < 
1See Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 68. 
