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Show IN GREAT PERPLEXITY. 373 July 3. As soon as it was dawn came the three young Indians of Zuni, to whom I imparted the new resolution, that I would not go to their pueblo, much as I desired to do so; and I told them my reasons: since I was to be unaccompanied by any of the Yabipais I could not well return by way of Moqui, of whose Indians I should have cause to be afraid if I were to return without those companions, and even though the Zunians might bring me back to Moqui they could not take me on to the Yabipais, with whom they had no friendship. It was not unknown to me that the Yutas were friends of the Espaiioles, and likewise of the Yabipais; but this business14 would require the with which one of these articles Garces would " hoodoo" them? They would be wise not to meddle with things they did not understand. Could they ever forget what their own sages and soothsayers had told them of the year 1680? Had they not gods enough of their own to fear and propitiate without undertaking strange Spanish deities? The situation was certainly serio- comic. Like his master, Garces had not where to lay his head; and in all ' that populous pueblo there was no one to take his hand, or offer him a morsel of food- him who had come so far, with such weariness, for his love of them and desire to save their souls. Our sympathies are with the good missionary, keeping his lonely vigil on the street corner, a-hungered and an outcast, alone in a crowd. But our judgment sides with the sagacious Moquis. They had the right of it, from their own point of view, and we cannot blame them. 14 Negocio- Any idea he might have of going to the Yutas, or plan to that end.' |