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THOMAS] INDIAN LANGUAGES OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 33
Orozco y Berra (1: 351) mentions them as Lower Pima in
connection with the Iluvagueres, Tehuisos, Basiroas, and
Tehatas, "Los Hios, a ocho leguas al Este de Tepahue, y los
Huvagueres y los Tehuisos sus vecinos:
los Basiroas y los Tehatas."
mas al Este seguian
The Huvaguere have already been referred to above;
and precisely the same remark ajiplies to the Tehuisos,
Basiroas, and Tehatas. All these supposed tribes or sub-
tribes, including the Ilios, are located by Orozco y Berra
between the Tepahue and the Varohio, which are not distant
one from the other, and, according to his map, would
lie directly along the border line between the territory of
the* Yaqui group and that of the Tarahumare. Although
Ribas makes frequent mention of the Hios, he does not
Bpeak of them separately nor refer to their language; he
makes no mention of any one of the other three names.
Zapata (384-389), writing some thirty or forty years later,
and referring to the missions and pueblos of this precise
section, does not name any one of these four subtribes or
their idioms, if different. Yet he does refer to the Guaza-
pare and the Varohio, and to the pueblos of Chinipa, Conicari,
etc., in the region mentioned, and to the language spoken
therein. However, Alegre, writing in the following century,
speaks of the Hios eight leagues east of the Tepahue
and five from Comicari [Conicari], of the Huvagueres and
Tehuisos, their neighbors, and of the Basiroas and Te-
hatas, a little farther in the sierra. This is evidently
Orozco y Berra' s authority for his statement, but as the
statement by Alegre closes with reference to "otros pueblos,"
it seems evident that he uses the names mentioned
as referring to villages. As there are no Indications any-
where, not even in Orozco y Berra's list of languages, that
these names bore any relation to distinct idioms, they may
be eliminated.
Batucos Ribas (359) says they came from the north*, and dwelt near
the friendly "naciones"—Cumupas, Buasdabas, and Bapispes,
extending down eastward to the Sunas. Kino, Kap-
pus, and Mange (393) speak of Batuco as a geographical
term— "los valles y pueblos de Batuco"—but a little
farther on (400) make mention of the entrance of Padre
Mendez into the "nacion" of the Batucos. Zapata (356)
says the language spoken in the pueblo of Santa Maria de
Batuco was Tehue. The geographical description gives the
same location as the preceding. Azpilcueta (in Alegre, ii,
186), referring to his visit to the Batuco, says their language
is not difficult and appears to be much like that of
Ocoroni. According to Velasco (Orozco y Berra, 1:343),
Batuco was one of the pueblos of the Opatas Tegiiis. Aa
the name "Tegiiis" seems to be pronounced Te-gu-is, it is
possible that Te-hu-e is the same. It this be correct, the
last two statements agree and the language spoken was
Opata. The Tahue mentioned farther on must not be
confounded with Tehue here: the former belonged to
Sinaloa, the latter to Sonora. However, Orozco y Berra