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114 CHIEF OP "tATAPIRAX." Turk and Ysopete, yet nowhere do the Spaniards mention the names of the Indian tribes as they are nowlcnown. The question naturally arises: Are the Kansas, Osage, Pawnee, and Missouri tribes different from those who roamed on the prairies at the time of our story? It would seem that the two guides^ so long with the expedition, would have used the names of the tribes to which they belonged, so that those who wrote of the country and its people would have gotten somewhere near the pronunciation. But neither Coronada, Castaneda, De Sivola, Del Suceso Hakluyt nor JaramiUo, all of whose accounts have been carefuUy translated under United States supervision, make any mention of the varioiis tribal names; and, mind you, it is known for sure that the general and JaramUlo were two of the thirty horsemen who reached the north line of Kansas. They do recite the name of the principal chief of one village or villages. He is designated "Tatarrax, Chief of Harahey," By a stretch of the imagination, Harahey might be con- strued to mean Osage. Father Marquette, 129 years after the time of this story, explored the same terri- tory. He spelled this name "Oschage," which re- sembles the sound as now given. He also spelled the others as follows: "Kansa, Paniassa, (Pawnee), Quermessowrit, (Missouri)." If the name "Harahey" is changed to "Harshay," it sounds something like Osage. Coronado gives no information as to how many villages the various tribes had. Father Doriay states that in 1678 the Osages had "seventeen villages on a river of that name, which empties into that of the Missourites."'