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Show MOQUI TRADITIONS. 387 make ( such) houses or pottery, no doubt it was done by some other nation- they replied to me that the Moquis had built them, for they alone knew how to do such things; and added that the Apaches who are about the missions are neither numerous nor valiant; that toward the north was where there were many powerful people; " there went we," they said, " to fight in former times ( antiguo-mente); and even though we attained unto their lands we did not surmount the mesas whereon they lived." It is confirmatory of this that I have observed among the Yabipais some circumstances bearing upon this information; for they brought me to drink a large earthenware cup very like the potsherds that are found in the house called ( Casa) de Moctezuma and on the Rio Gila. Asking them whence they had procured it, they answered me that in Moqui there is much of that. As I entered not into any house of Moqui, I could not assure myself by sight; but from the street I saw on the roofs some large, well- painted ollas. Also have the Pimas Gilenos told me repeatedly that the Apaches of the north came anciently to fight with them for the Casa that is said to be of Moctezuma; and being sure that the Indians whom we know by the name of Apaches have no house nor any fixed abode, I persuaded myself that they could be the Moquis who came to fight; and that, harassed by the |
