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Show 384 RETURN TO ORAIBI. to feed. At dusk I ascended the acclivity at the entrance of the pueblo, wondering at the multitude of people that I saw there were ( que habia y vi); forasmuch as they were now returned from labor they all stood on the house- tops, gazing at me whilst I passed, mounted on my mule, in search of the corner of the night before, which I found after some turns. There are in this pueblo two languages, and I noted that even the modes of singing are diverse, as are the two classes of persons, who are distinguished from each other in the stature and color of both males and females ( Indios y Indies). There are some of a very light ( claro) and somewhat ruddy ( rubio) complexion, as well- formed as the Yabipais; there are others small, dark, and ill- favored. When they go away from the pueblo, one and the other differ little from the Espa-noles in dress; I saw them wearing a leather jacket venes between the Oraibi mesa and the middle one, which latter has three of the other pueblos on its southern bluff borders. The distance to the top of this next mesa is about seven miles. When he got there, he found the road forked, one trail keeping on eastward to Hano, Walpi, and Sichomovi on the third mesa, the other turning south on the second mesa to Shumopovt, Shipaulovi, and Mashongnovi. Perhaps . the uncertainty which to take was a factor in determining him rather to return to the ills he knew than fly to others he knew not Like many another indefatigable traveler he could not find his way anywhere alone; he was perfectly helpless, on the back of his mule and in the hands of his God. |