Few people in Mexico are so little known as the Triquis.

Orozco y Berra, usually a good authority, locates them near Tehuantepec, in the low country.

The towns which he calls Triqui are Chontal; the five true Triqui towns are in the high Mixteca.

The largest is the town which we were now approaching.

The Triquis are people of small stature, dark-brown color, black eyes, aquiline, but low and rather broad nose; they are among the most conservative, suspicious and superstitious of Mexican indians.