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this series. There were the Pah Utes, or Pyutes, the Pi Edes, the Gosh Utes, or Ooshutes, the Uinta Utes, the Yam Pah Utes, and many others. Pah signifies water; pah guampe, salt water, or salt lake; Pah Utex, Indians that live about the water. The early orthography of the word Utah is varied. Escalante, prior to his journey to Utah Lake, Carta de 2S Oct. 1775, MS., finds the ' Yutas ' inhabiting the region north of the Moquis. This was a common spelling by the early Spaniards, and might be called the proper one. Later we have ' Youta,' ' Eutaw,' ' Utaw,' and ' Utah.'
