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Show 360 ALREADY IN TROUBLE. entrada I met a young man, to whom I offered a little tobacco, and he would have none of it. One league further on there came two on good horses and well dressed; and I approaching them as if to take them by the hand, they drew away, making signs that I should betake myself back. Spake then on the subject and in my favor the Yabipais who accompanied me, but I knew that they were encountering opposition, since having returned to me they asked me what it was that I was of a mind to do ( que era lo que deter-minaba). As well as I could I gave the Moquis to understand that if they received me not I would pass on to the Gualpes; 43 or if not that, to the Espanoles; 44 for I was an Espanol. So leaving them all at the very word, 45 I proceeded alone, as already the Yabipais had told me that I was near the pueblo. * These were the Moquis of the pueblo of Gualpi, Hualpi, or Walpi, one of the easternmost cluster of three towns, adjoining Sichomovi and Hano, the other two of this group. The distance of Gualpi from Oraibi is about 25 miles by the trail, £. by S. The three other Moqui pueblos of Shipaulovi, Mishong-novi, and Shumopovi, form an intermediate group, £. S. £. of Oraibi and W. S. W. of Walpi, nearer to the latter than to the former. An extended historical and ethnographic note on all of these pueblos will be found beyond, pp. 393- 402. 44 Namely, the Spaniards at Santa Fe. ** Y asi dexandolos 4 todos. con la palobra en la boca; literally, " with the word in the mouth "- so saying, or forthwith. The expression is idiomatic. |