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Show 488 A CURIOUS ETYMOLOGY. means in; and Bac, tule; and the combination Quito-bac means en tule chiquito (" in small tule ") 3 4 The Rio de las Balsas which it also cites, is the Rio Colorado. 85 It says that following northward they arrived at the Alchedum nation; in this very direction I myself went to the nation that I call Jalchedum. Whatsoever this relation says of the sea has much connection with what I have seen, as in ( the instance of) the small ships that are found in the Canal ( de Santa Barbara), and about the smell of amber, which I also have noted on my journey, though I do not assure myself that it could be amber exactly; the same is re-u GarceV etymology, like his theology, will satisfy those who believe in miracles. To make Quitobac mean " in small reeds," he clips the Spanish adjective chiquito, " small/' down to ' quito, and adds bac from Piman to finish the word; then drawing from a different word, Bacapa, the apa for his " in." I am familiar with false etymologies of many sorts, but think I never before saw quite such a stunner as this miraculous ingenuity. See the preceding note by Mr. Hodge. 151 do not recognize the place in any of the numerous Relations of different portions of the Coronado expeditions where the Colorado is called Rio de las Balsas. Coronado himself was never on the Colorado, and the Rio de las Balsas of Jaramillo, who was with him on his inland march to Zuni, Tiguex, and Quivira, is most probably the Rio Salado, in southeastern Arizona. Those of Coronado's men who were up the Colorado river to the Jalchedunes were Melchior Diaz and Hernando de Alarcon, who called the stream Rio del Tizon and Rio de la Buena Guia. |
