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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 Chemequabas, 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 be a fine 
athletic people, exceedingly warlike, and superior to 
the other tribes on the river. On the eastern side, the 
same missionaries notice the Zehuas, Cosninas, and Mo- 
ques. <A tribe of the first-named family hved in New 
Mexico. The Cosninas I presume to be the same as the 
Ooch-nich-nos, whom Mr. Leroux met in his late jour- 
ney down the Colorado, although, on account of 
their hostility, he had no intercourse with them. The 
Mogquis 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 
