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Show 372 NO PRIEST WANTED IN ORAIBI. voice burst out and made an argument, during which the same silence was preserved. This night I also noticed various men passing back and forth through the streets, especially two or three hours before daybreak, just as would be the case ( como se fuera) in large pueblos of Espanoles. I was lying down when my friends the Yabipais arrived, whom I advised of the determination I had formed to go to Zuni; to which they answered me that they were not going with me, and that it would be better that I should return to the Jabesua. They also added, that the Moquis would have none of me ( no me querian). I then gave them some white shells wherewith they might purchase maiz, and they told me that not even at this price { par eUas) would the Moquis part with any, and for that very reason did they not wish to take them ( the shells). I entered into greater concern when I saw that the two other young men brought me back the ( shells) that I had given them on the road; for from this action I inferred that the ( people) of the pueblo had caused them to look with suspicion upon my gifts. 1* " No doubt some old Trojan of a Moqni had said to these young fellows* in substance: * Tow* D m n H 4mm / trade*."* They were not hostile: they were simply afraid of the white man's " medicine,'* whkh included his crucifix, breviary, rosary, sea- sheQs* and even his tobacco. How couW they tell |