[145] See the descriptions of the Nevomes (Pimas) in Perez de Ribas, _Historia de los Triumphos de Nuestra Santa Fé_, Lib. VI., cap. 2. (Madrid, 1645.) [146] “Las casas eran o de madera, y palos de monte, o de piedra y barro; y sus poblaciones unas rancherias, a modo de casilas.” Ribas, _Historia de los Triumphos de Nuestra Santa Fé_, Lib. X., cap. 1. (Madrid, 1645.) [147] Torquemada, _Monarquia Indiana_, Lib. V., cap. 44. An interesting sketch of the recent condition of these tribes is given by C. A. Pajeken, _Reise-Erinnerungen_, pp. 91-98. (Bremen, 1861.) [148] Perez de Ribas, _Historia_, etc., Lib. II., cap. 33. [149] Eustaquio Buelna, _Peregrinacion de los Aztecas y Nombres Geograficos Indigenas de Sinaloa_, p. 20. (Mexico, 1887.) [150] Buelna, loc. cit., p. 21. [151] Father Perez de Ribas, who collected these traditions with care, reports this fact. _Historia de los Triumphos_, etc., Lib. I., cap. 19. [152] See “The Toltecs and their Fabulous Empire,” in my _Essays of an Americanist_, pp. 83-100. [153] There is an interesting anonymous MS. in the _Fond Espagnol_ of the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris, with the title _La Guerra de los Chichimecas_. The writer explains the name as a generic term applied to any tribe without settled abode, “vagos, sin casa ni sementera.” He instances the Pamis, the Guachichiles and the Guamaumas as Chichimeca, though speaking quite different languages. [154] “Cuitlatl, = _mierda_” (Molina, _Vocabulario Mexicano_). Cuitlatlan, _Ort des Kothes_ (Buschmann, _Aztekische Ortsnamen_, s. 621), applied to the region between Michoacan and the Pacific; also to a locality near Techan in the province of Guerrero (Orozco y Berra, _Geog. de las Lenguas_, p. 233). [155] Dr. Gustav Brühl believes these schools were limited to those designed for warriors or the priesthood. Sahagun certainly assigns them a wider scope. See Brühl, _Die Calturvölker Alt-Amerikas_, pp. 337-8. [156] See “The Ikonomatic Method of Phonetic Writing” in my _Essays of an Americanist_, p. 213. (Philadelphia, 1890.) [157] Four skulls in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, give a cephalic index of 73. [158] Sahagun, _Historia de la Nueva España_, Lib. X, cap. 29. [159] D. G. Brinton, _Ancient Nahuatl Poetry_, p. 134. (Philadelphia, 1887, in Library of Aboriginal American Literature.) [160] E. G. Tarayre, _Explorations des Regions Mexicaines_, p. 282. (Paris, 1879). [161] D. G. Brinton, _Essays of an Americanist_, p. 366. [162] H. de Charencey, _Melanges de Philologie et de Palæographie Américaine_, p. 23.