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Show 388 ANOTHER LONELY VIGIL. Pimas, who always have been numerous and valiant, they abandoned long ago these habitations on the Rio Gila, as also have they done this with that ruined pueblo which I found before my arrival at Moqui and of which I have made mention above; and that they retired to the place where now they live, in a situation so advantageous, so defensible, and with such precautions for self- defense in case of invasion. Within this pueblo I saw no water; but at the edge of the bluff ( cuesta) on the east I saw a very copious spring of water, though I did not observe that it was running; the descent thereto is by some steps well formed of stone, and all round it is a curbing of the same material. As soon as I reached the desired corner of the street I disposed the things in order to take rest, for it was already night; and presently there came a young man of the Yabipais, and without saying to me one word he took away the mule. July 4. As soon as day broke I heard singing and dancing in the streets; the rout ( el bayle) passed by the ( place) where I was, and then only did I see that some of the Indians were painted red, with feathers and other decorations on the head, beating the sound of the dance on a kind of drum ( batea) 21 with two n The instrument which Garces calls batea, and I have translated " kind of drum," was a deep tray, usually of oval form, |