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Show 394 NOTES ON THE MOQUI PUEBLOS. the way the Yabipais pronounced them to me, are: Sesepaulaba; Masagnebe; Jano; Gualpa; Muqui con-towns, collectively called " Tusayan," variously estimated as being situated from 20 to 35 leagues northwestward. Dispatching a small force under Pedro de Tobar, accompanied by Fray Juan de Padilla, the province was visited, and after a brief passage at arms the natives succumbed to the Spaniards. It was on this journey that news was first gained by white men of the existence of the Grand canon of the Colorado river, which was visited the same year by another party of Coronado's followers under Garcia Lopez de Cardenas. There is some doubt regarding the situation and composition of the Tusayan pueblos of the middle of the sixteenth century. In the opinion of Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, our leading authority on the Hopi Indians, the Tusayan of Coronado's time was situated considerably southward of its present location, probably on or near the Rio Colorado Chiquito, and the migration to the present area occupied by the Hopi villages occurred between 1540 and the time of Antonio de Espejo's visit in 1583. However this may be, the estimates of distance from Cibola to Tusayan, as given by Coronado's chroniclers, certainly accord more closely with Dr. Fewkes' theory of the location than with the actual distance from Zuiii to the Hopi pueblos of the present time. None of the names of the Tusayan villages are recorded until 1583, when Espejo visited the province of " Mohoce," which, according to his statement, contained five large towns, with 50,000 (!) inhabitants: Comupavi ( Shumopovi), Majanani ( Mashongnovi), Gaspe ( doubtless Gualpe or Walpi), Olalla ( Oraibi), and Aguato or Zaguato ( Awatobi). All of these save " Aguato " are mentioned indefinitely, and it is now possible to identify them only through resemblance of their names to modern forms. In 1604 " Mohoce " or " Mohoqui " was visited by Juan de Onate, who mentions the villages of Mohoqui, Naybe*. Xumupami, Cuanrabi, and Esperiez, while among the chiefs the |