4(J8 WESTERN LANGUAGES CLASSIFIED. 



Chiricaliua, on same agency, and with the Cochise Apaches number- 

 ing, in 1877, 285 



Mescalero, on Mescalero-Apache Agency, in New Mexico, west of the 

 Rio Grande; in 1877, 1,400. 



Lipan, real numbers unknown, because roving ; a few have been 

 gathered with Tonkawa Indians on a reservation near Fort Griffin, Shackle- 

 ford County, Texas. 



Navajo, on a very spacious reserve in Northwestern New Mexico and 

 Northeastern Arizona, on the Canon de Chelle and other streams; in 1877, 

 11,868 Indians and 26 mixed-bloods. 



Jicarilla, in 1877, 326, on Abiquiu Agency; 442 on Pueblo, formerly 

 Cimarron Agency, in northern part of New Mexico. Their dialect has been 

 investigated by Dr. H. C. Yarrow. 



THE NUMA STOCK. 



For the first time a considerable number of Shoshoni dialects is here 

 presented to the student of linguistic science. Equally useful for rapid 

 reference and ready comparison, this comprehensive table of eighteen 

 vocabularies will be of interest to the lexicographer as well as to the inves- 

 tigator of the phonetic laws of these dialects. 



Instead of Shoshoni, the term Numa has recently been suggested as a 

 comprehensive designation for the whole race and its language. In its 

 several dialectic forms it means "people" "men," and is found in most of 

 our vocabularies under "man," "Indian," and "people;" scientists will there- 

 fore scarcely hesitate to approve its choice. 



The Numa race of aborigines is an inland race extending over a large 

 portion of the great interior Basin from Middle Idaho southward to the Colo- 

 rado, the Colorado Chiquito, and the Rio San Juan; one of its subdivisions, 

 the Comanche tribe, has overrun the vast plains extending between the Ar- 

 kansas and the Rio Grande, while another branch has in early days occupied 

 portions of Eastern and Southern California. This is the only Numa off- 

 shoot which, as far as we know, has settled on the shore of the Pacific Ocean, 



The interest taken in this great inland race is increased in a peculiar 

 manner by its linguistic connection with the Nahuatl languages of the 

 Mexican States. The Nahuatl race includes not only the various tribes of 

 the Aztecs and of the historical Toltecs, but also the cognate mountain 



