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Show ARRIVAL AT ORAIBI. 359 Apacheria *° on the south and southwest, whereof already have I made mention. July 2. I went three leagues eastsoutheast, and yet other three east; 41 whereupon I arrived at the pueblo, that the Yabipais call Muca, and this is the ( Pueblo) de Oraibe. 42 Three leagues before my • Apacheria = " Apacheland," the indefinite region in Arizona and New Mexico over which the Apaches roamed. 41 This coarse is over a nearly level plain to near its end, the most conspicuous object being the isolated mesa on GarceY right, rising to 6,500 feet from the general level of 5,500 to 5,575. On nearing Oraibi, when about 5 m. due W. of that pueblo, the road rises 250 feet to the level of 6,000 feet, and at this elevation rounds Oraibi butte, which rises to 6,750; it then sinks again to the general level, and finally rises abruptly to the butte or mesa on the edge of which is Oraibi, at an altitude of 6,250. * Oraibi, Oraybe, Oraibe, etc., is the isolated westernmost one of the seven pueblos of the Province of Tusayan, directly on the bluff, and very near the end of a narrow spur of one of the Moqui mesas, in lat 350 53' very nearly, about long. no° 38'. It stands to- day on the identical spot where it was discovered by a party of Coronado's men in the summer of 1540, and is one of the most obdurately conservative, fixed facts in all the history of Arizona. When it was built is unknown; but for three centuries and a half it has stood like the rock on which it is intrenched, sturdily resisting the encroachments of ecclesiastic and military power. In GarceY time, it had known the Spanish priest and soldier to its cost for more than 200 years, sometimes entertaining, sometimes expelling, sometimes slaying the intruders; and we shall see what sort of reception its. traditional policy of independence induced this pueblo to ex-tend to the new missionary. |
