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Show CHAPTER FIVE i '- / • r }^:V o- _*. r, \ Fig. 88. Untitled drawing of ruins at Wupatki. Richard H. Kern. Courtesy, Fred W. Cron. Reproduced as a lithograph entitled Ruined Pueblos, in Lorenzo Sitgreaves, Report of an Expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers (Washington, D.C, 1853). See fig. 143. sight of the strangers. Leroux then permitted the Mexicans who were with him to enter the Indians' abandoned camp and take baskets, mescal (probably the sweet, bread-like roasted roots of the agave), bread made from mes-quite beans, "and other things as trophies." Sitgreaves apparently reprimanded Leroux for allowing this to happen; for a while thereafter the American intruders attempted to treat Indians with greater courtesy. Not wanting to challenge Indians for control of the watering place Leroux had found, Sitgreaves instead ordered that the mules, who had gone without water for two days, be sent back to the Little Colorado. They returned that same evening, October 10, well watered and bearing kegs and rubber bags full of 166 |
