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Loew for the name of one of the "Serrano" or mountain tribes. This 

 group subdivides itself into : 



Kauviiya, on the oases in Cahuillo Valley, at the Gorgonio Pass, at 

 Temecula, and in the Jacinto Mountains ; written also Cahuillo and (in- 

 correctl}') Coahuila. 



Takhtam or men — called Serranos or mountain Indians by the white 

 population — in the vicinity of San Bernardino, Colton, and Riverside ; 

 dialect almost identical with Kauvuya. 



Dialect of San Luis Key (de Francia) Mission, founded in 1798 ; for- 

 merly called Kechi dialect. Vocabulary taken by Lieut. Eric Bergland. 



Dialect of San Juan Capistrano Mission, founded in 1776, formerly 

 called Nete'la dialect; Oscar Loew calls it Gaitchim {houses). The Juaneno 

 Indians inhabit six or eight villages in the interior. 



Dialect of San Gabriel Mission, founded in 1771. Called Kizh dialect 

 with that of San Fernando Mission by former investigators; 0. Loew calls 

 the tribe of San Gabriel: Tobikhar. 



Dialect of San Fernando (Rey de Espaila) Mission, founded in 1797. 

 Said to be closely related to the San Gabriel dialect. 



H. Comanche — A division of the Numa race wandering in company 

 with Kiowas and Apaches through Northern Texas and on both sides of 

 the Rio Grande. After many bloody contests with whites of Spanish and 

 Anglo-Saxon descent, portions of them have recently surrendered to the 

 authority of the United States, and have been settled on the Kiowa and 

 Comanche Agency, Indian Territory, where, in 1877, they numbered 1,545. 

 The ancient range of this tribe of equestrians extended from Nebraska and 

 Northern New Mexico to Durango and Zacatecas (22° Lat), in Mexico, 

 and of about twelve subdivisions the national names have been trans- 

 mitted. Their language is closely related to that of the Shoshoni of Wyo- 

 ming, Idaho, &c, and k6mass means estranged, severed off, separated; two 

 facts which indicate a compai*atively recent secession from some Numa 

 tribe further north. They call themselves Nemue, the living ones, the people. 



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The dialects which in their totality form the Yussa language extend 

 not only over the valley of the Lower Colorado, the western and interior 



