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in the Mohave is its equivalent.  Dr. Neilhau gives [[underlined]]Yak-pai[[/underlined]], a word having apparently the same root, as the work for Indians, people, among the Yumas & ^ [[derives the]] name of the Apache Toutos or Fool Apaches.  Yap-a-pai, [[strikethrough]]as signifying men[[/strikethrough]] ^[[from their word]].  I have seen no vocabulary of this, or of the Apache people.  It may be that this name of Apache is not their own designation, but one conferred on them by others, as is not unfrequently the case.

But little is known of most of these tribes. The Chimewehwas have been stated to be a low and miserable race, living like the Snake "Diggers" chiefly on reptiles, but Miss Oatman speaks of them as hunters.  She gives their own enumeration as 1100 souls.

The Apache Toutos, "Fool Apaches ^[[(Yapapai).]], are said to derive their name from having once started on a foraging expedition to Sonora, and failing to find water in the desert, returning empty handed.  Dr. Neilhau believes them to form a connecting link between the Colorado Indians and the Apache, and Miss Oatman states that they speak a dialect kindred with the Mohave.  They are said to be shorter and stouter built than the Yumas, to live by hunting and dress in skins.  The two bands mentioned by Miss Oatman, and who collectively as I suppose constitute this tribe, are said by her to amount each to 1000 souls.