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steps were taken to bring about the release of the latter.

The Indian tribes occupying the lower part of the Great Basin of the Colorado, including a part of the Gila, and extending to the Coast at San Diego apparently belong to a single family of which the Cuchavos or Suveas may be taken as the type.  The limits of this connection are as yet unknown but it will very probably be found to extend north eastward up the Colorado, to the Great CaƱon of that river, and it will hereafter be a subject of interesting enquiry to trace the line of migration by which they have wedged themselves into their present position, and to identify their more remote connections. As yet, neither the geographical nor the ethnological materials collected justify the attempt. Col Fremont in his general "Map of Oregon & Upper California" published by order of the Senate in 1848, gives, as I suppose from old Spanish authorities, the names Geuigueih, Chemeguabas, Iumbiu-crariri and Timbabachi as those of tribes occupying the right or west bank of the Colorado above the Gila, and the Yumas, Tejuas, Cosuinas and Moquis on the left bank. A few of these only are now recognizable. Not only the mode of pronouncing and spelling adopted by different persons and nations varies greatly, but speaking of themselves, these Indians usually adopt the name of the locality inhabited by their particular band and not a common tribal designation, and in speaking of others, apply their own peculiar appellations.  
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