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been, no communication with them either by travellers 
or by the government. The early missionaries who 
traversed that region have placed on their maps seve- 
ral tribes, whose very names have now disappeared. 
On the old maps there are found west of the Colorado 
the Genigueh,the Chemeguabas, the Jumbuicrariri, and 
the Timbabachi, tribes of whose existence in our day 
we know nothing. The missionaries who mention 
them, are correct in all their statements, as far as we 
are now able to judge, and it is therefore probable 
that there were small tribes bearing the above names. 
Father Kino, who was here in the year 1700, mentions 
the Quiquimas, Coanpas, Bajiopas, and Cutganes, while 
the distinguished philologist Hervas, in his ‘‘ Catalogo 
de las Lenguas,” names many others, the authority for. 
which, is the early missionaries. At Fort Yuma, we 
heard of a tribe called the Mohavi, who occupy the 
country watered by a river of the same name, which 
empties into the Colorado about one hundred and fifty 
miles above the fort. They are said to bea fine 
athletic people, exceedingly warlike, and superior to 
the other tribes on the river. On the eastern side, the 
same missionaries notice the Tehuas, Cosninas, and Mo- 
quis. A tribe of the first-named family lived in New 
Mexico. The Cosninas I presume to be the same as the 
Coch-nich-nos, whom Mr. Leroux met in his late jour 
ney down the Colorado, although, on account 0 
their hostility, he had no intercourse with them. The 
Moquis are still known, being one of the semi-civilized 
tribes with which we have had some intercourse. This 
people cultivate the soil, raise numbers of sheep, live | 
in large villages, and manufacture a superior blanket 
