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days above the same point, and the Yampais (Yapaipa) also on the left bank, six days above it. He also mentions two other tribes, living in the desert west of the Colorado, the Cah-wee-os, and Co-mo-yah, Co-mo-yei, or Quemeya, the former on Red River near the Salt Lake the latter farther north on the head waters of the same stream.  

Mr Bartlett supposes the Casuinas of the Spaniards to be the Coch-nich-nos, a tribe met with by Mr. Lerouif, one of his party, but whose locality is not specified, and he identifies the Diegenos or Indians of San Diego, with the Comeya or Comoyei. The remnant of a tribe called Cawinas, which he met with among the Pimos and Maricopas and who had been driven eastward by the Yumas, I presume to be a fragment of Lieut Whipple's Cah-wee-os, very probably separated from the rest, at the time of the general disruption of the Colorado tribes.

Lieut Mowry, on the authority of Miss Oatman, gives some further particulars of the upper Colorado tribes.  According to her account, the true name of the Mohaves, or that which they apply to themselves is Naw-mukhave.  Besides these and the Chime-weh-was, she mentions two, living on the opposite bank to the former, the Wyl-o-py-yah and Yeo-oh-py-ah, who speak a dialect of the Yuma.  These are probably branches of the same tribe, and included in the Spanish modification of Yampi, or Yampaio, and in the Yapapai of Dr Milham.  Above the Mohave on the Colorado is another tribe, which she knew only through their report, the Coh-whyl-chah, which I presume to be