CHIHUAHUA WESTWARD. 153 
names are still given to most of the places 
in the country they occupied before the 
advent of Europeans. 
Wherever there is water (so I was 
told by an old resident among these 
strange and little known people, Don 
Enrique Muller) the name of the camp 
or town alongside ended in chic , as 
in the example I have given above, as 
also in Bibichic, Carichic, Baquiriachic, 
and a few others I could mention—“all 
wool and a yard wide.” The rest of the 
word Cusihuiriachic, still long enough for 
five or six more names, means, says my 
authority, “ the place of the standing 
post.” When they ruled their own coun¬ 
try many years ago the principal means 
of punishment employed was the upright 
post, to which the offenders were tied and 
treated to a Delaware dissertation. Such 
