THOMAS] INDIAN LANGUAGES OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 93 
lately denied, but it is too clearly proven by historical evidence to 
admit of doubt. In the paper heretofore quoted Peralta says: 
On the Bay del Almirante [Chiriqui] to Point Sorobeta or Terbi there was the 
Chichimec colony, already referred to, whose cacique Iztolin conversed in the Mexi- 
can language with Juan Vasquez de Coronado in 1564. 
A previous statement in the same paper is as follows: 
A Mexican colony also existed in the valley of Telorio near the Bay del Almirante, 
and inhabited the island of Tojar, or Zorobaro (now of Columbus), and the towns of 
Chicaua, Moyaua, Quequexque, and Corotapa, on the mainland. 
The foregoing information enables us to locate on the map with 
approximate correctness the territory of this Nahuatlan colony, 
which marks the southern limit of this conquering race. 
DORASKEAN TRIBES ! 
According to all the authorities, the eastern boundary of the Tala- 
mancan area forms the western boundary of the Doraskean area. 
This area was in the form of a belt extending across this narrow 
part of the continent from the Chiriqui lagoon to the Pacific Ocean. 
In the extract from his paper heretofore given (p. 83) Peralta states 
that the ‘‘Changuenes,”’ who belonged to this group— 
Occupied the forests about the headwaters of the Rio Ravalo. The Doraces, south 
of the Laguna of Chiriqui, and at the foot of the Cordillera adjoined in the valley of 
the river Cricamola or Guaymi with the warlike nation of the latter name. 
Pinart (2:1) says the ‘‘Dorasque-Changuina”’ occupied the region 
about the voleano of Chiriqui, or Enefia, and the high sierras of 
Chiriqui and Talamanca, and that they adjomed the ‘‘naciones”’ of 
the Talamanca, extending northward to the Chiriqui lagoon. Sapper 
(1:map) shows them in the south near David bay and also in the 
sierras midway between that bay and Chiriqui lagoon. Except in 
the case of the two groups placed on his map, one of which at 
least he seems to have visited, the latter author relies chiefly on 
Pinart’s statement. In addition to the statement above referred 
to, Pinart speaks of settlements at Bugava, which is near the Pacific 
coast at the Bay of David, and at Gualaca, which is in the inte- 
rior about midway toward Chiriqui lagoon, around which Sapper 
locates his interior settlement. He mentions another group on the 
headwaters of the Changuinaula; others are mentioned at Calderas 
and Potrero, all of rae except thosc on the Changuinaula, he 
visited. He indicates that the former chief habitat of the ‘‘ Dorasque- 
Changuina”’ was on the Atlantic slope, but that they were transferred 
by the missionaries in the eighteenth century to the Pacific slope. 
Chaliva.—All ascertained in regard to this dialect is that it was 
spoken, or perhaps more correctly supposed to be or to have been 
10n account of the comparatively small size of the map of the region now entered in the progress south- 
ward and the lack of data adequate for marking correctly the tribal areas, only the territory occupied 
by the group or subfamily is outlined. 
