The lower Rio Grande del Norte was peopled on both its banks by a stock which was christened by Orozco y Berra the _Coahuiltecan_, but which Pimentel preferred to call the Texan. The latter is too wide a word, so I retain the former. There is not much material for the study of its dialects, so we are left in the dark as to the relationship of many tribes resident in that region. They were small in size and rich in names. Adolph Uhde gives the appellations and locations of seventy-four, based on previous works and personal observations.[108] The missionary Garcia, in his _Manual of the Sacraments_, published in the last century, names seventeen tribes speaking dialects of the tongue he employs, which appears to be a branch of the Coahuiltecan.[109] It is useless to repeat the long list, the more so as the bands were unimportant and have long since become extinct, with a few exceptions. They were in a savage condition, roving, and depending on hunting and fishing. The following appear to have been the principal members of the COAHUILETCAN LINGUISTIC STOCK. _Alazapas_, near Monclova. _Cacalotes_, on the left bank of the Rio Grande. _Catajanos_ or _Cartujanos_, near Monclova. _Carrizos_, near Monclova. _Coaquilenes_, near Monclova. _Cotonames_, left bank of Rio Grande. _Comecrudos_, near Reynosa. _Orejones_, near San Antonio de Bejar. _Pacaos_ or _Pakawas_, near San Antonio. Among the extinct dialects of Tamaulipas was the _Maratin_, which at one time had considerable extension. The only monument which has been preserved of it is a wild song, in which the natives celebrated all too early their victories over the Spaniards. The text contains several Nahuatl words, but the body of the roots appear to have been drawn from some other source.[110] Uhde locates the Maratins near Soto la Marina and along the Gulf between the Rio Panuco and the Rio Grande.[111] 8. THE PAWNEES (CADDOES). The Pani[112] stock was scattered irregularly from the Middle Missouri River to the Gulf of Mexico. The Pawnees proper occupied the territory from the Niobrara River south to the Arkansas. The Arikari branch had separated and migrated to the north at a comparatively recent period, while the Wichitas, Caddoes and Huecos roamed over Eastern Louisiana and Western Texas. The earliest traditions of all these peoples assign their priscan home toward the south, and the Pawnees remembered having driven the Dakota tribes from the hunting grounds of the Platte Basin.