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Show 386 MOQUI TRADITIONS. trouble was, as the Zunian told me, with the chief or chiefs ( cavesa 6 cabesas), who ordered them that they should give me neither food nor shelter; which ( mandate) they punctually obeyed. Various other reasons, besides their unwillingness to be baptized, or even to admit Espaiioles in their land, could there be for this order; such are, their having learned that I came through the Jamajabs their enemies, and that I had gone with other Espaiioles among the Yumas, friends of the Yabipais Tejua and of the Chemeguaba, with whom the Moquis are at war; so that they suspected my coming as that of a spy. Also they knew that I was padre ministro of the Pimas, who likewise are their enemies. This hostility had been told me by the old Indians of my mission, by the Gileiios, and Cocomaricopas; from which information I have imagined { he discurrido) that the Moqui nation anciently extended to the Rio Gila itself. I take my stand ( fundome, ground myself) in this matter on the ruins that are found from this river as far as the land of the Apaches; and that I have seen between the Sierras de la Florida and San Juan Nepomuzeno. Asking a few years ago some Subaipuris Indians who were living in my mission of San Xavier, if they knew who had built those houses whose ruins and fragments of pottery ( losd, for loza) are still visible- as, on the supposition that neither Pimas nor Apaches knew how ta |