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Show THESE PEOPLE ARE CHICHIMECOS." 365 came to me one old man to whom I made a present, and allowed to kiss el Cristo; when he received the tobacco and shells he said in Castilla, " May God reward thee" ( Dios te lo pague). Soon there came a young man to whom I made the same offering, and he began to speak in Espaiiol, saying unto me, " Padre, these ( people) are chichimecos,* who do not wish to be bap- • Chichimeco or chichitneca is a Mexican word adopted by the Spanish from the very earliest times for any wild or hostile Indian, as opposed to manso, a tame one; and in time it came to mean what we do when we speak of a " bully," " bravo," " fire-eater," etc. Some of the dictionaries treat it as the proper name of a tribe: thus, one to which I have just referred says: " Chichimecos, one of the ancient races of America, of the Mexican family, which at some remote period came from the north of the continent and established itself in what is now Mexico, and was ultimately exterminated by the Spaniards." The Teatro Americano of J. A. de Villa- Senor y Sanchez, 1746, i, p. 3, speaks of " el Imperio Chichimeco." F. L. Gomara, Hist., 1554, chap. 214, has a " tierra de Chichimecas" etc. The Relacion de Castaneda, pt. ii, chap. 5, speaking of Cicuye, says that the Pecos " generalmente llaman estas gentes teyas por gentes ualietes [ valientes] como dicen los mexicanos chichimecas o teules"- generally called the Teyas so because they were valiant, as the Mexicans say chichimecas or teules. The French translation of Ternaux- Compans, 1838, p. 178, renders this: " lis nomment cette nation Teyas, ce qui veut dire vaillants, comme les Mexi-cains s'appellant chichimecas ou braves." The word chichitneca is found in the title of Fernando de Alvarado Tezozamoc, Cronica Mexicana, Historia Chichimeca por Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, forming vol. ix of Viscount Kingsborough's sumptuous Antiquities of Mexico, etc., 1848; and IxtlilxochitTs |