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Thus it is with difficulty, particularly after a considerable lapse of time, that their nomenclature can be identified. It is probable that the above all refer to existing tribes, though they may not be always correctly placed. The Chemequabas are undoubtedly the Chimenchuras, the Yumas are well known, and also the Neoquis, who, however , do not live on the Colorado, but more Easterly. Other names are mentioned by Mr. Bartlett on the authority of Father Kino in 1700. As the Quiguimas, Coaupas, Bajiopas and Cutganes.  Of these the Qui-quimas, I presume to be Comoyei or Queumeya, and the Bajiopas, the Sabopai of Humboldt or Yapapai.  Dr. Wilhau thus enumerates the tribes which came under his observation.  First the Cocopas, whom he distinguished from the Maricopas of the Gila, and who possess the country at the mouth of the Colorado.  Next the Yumas or Cuchanos, whose territory commences about one hundred miles up the river by its course or perhaps sixty in a straight line, and includes the bottom lands for a distance of one hundred and sixty miles in its windings.  North of them, and on the west side of the river, are the Mohaves, called by the Yumas Amohah: North West, in the mountains at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, and behind the last, the Chime-weh-was, and on the [[strikethrough]] North [[/strikethrough]] east, ^ [[bank opposite the Mohaves]] the Yapapai or Apache Toubos, who also inhabit a mountainous and unexplored region.

Lt. Whipple, in a contribution to this work (Schoolcraft's large work, vol II, page 115) comprises, under the general name of Yuma, several tribes as the Cuchaus,  Mah-ha-os (Mohaves) occupying the right bank of the river, seven days journey from the junction of the Gila, the Hah-wat-coes, on the left bank.  Eight [[end page]]