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Show CONTENTS. ix Fe. Disappointed with the city. A queer old town. High- sounding names. Indian troubles. Starting for Fort Wingate. La Bajada. Quien Sabef Pueblos Indians. Valley of the Kio Grande. Albuquerque The gente fina. The " Greasers." Will they ever amount to any thing ? 212- 229 CHAPTEE XV. TOLTECCAN. The oldest inhabitant. Alvar Nunez, etc., traverses New Mexico. What he saw and how he lied about it. " The Seven Cities of Cibola." Conquest of New Mexico. Revolt of the Pueblos. Second Conquest. High- toned grandees. Caste. Sad (?) oc-currence. Should the Territory be made a State? Citizen Indians. Queer old cus-toms. Parental authority. Enterprise. The universal burro. We cross the Kio Grande. And enter on the desert. The awful, the unutterable desert. Sufferings from thirst. Reach " Hog River." Dead Man's Canon. Another desert. Oasis of El Rito. Degenerate Spaniards. Pueblo de Laguna. An Aztec relic. El Cubero. " Women's Rights." Mala Pais. Agua Azul. The extinct volcano. Drive to Fort Wingate. My companion comes to grief. Ojo del oso. Zuni. Stinking Springs. The Puerco of the West. Down to Fort Defiance. 230- 248 CHAPTER XVI. WILD LIFE IN ARIZONA. The gathering. Canon Benito. Handsome Indian girls. Navajo patience. A mixed tongue. " Slim- man- with- a- white- eye." El- soo- see En- now- lo- kyh. " Big Quill." Murder of Agent Miller. Sorrow of the Navajoes. Their kindness and courtesy. Off for a trip. My Navajo guide. " Tohh klohh no mas." Descent into Canon de Chelley. Wonders on wonders. The " cliff cities." Moonlight in the canon. Out again on the desert. An awful passage. The hot alkali plains. Thirst and suffering. " Hah- koh, Melicano.'" Approach to the Moqui towns. Amazement of the inhabitants. The city set on a rock. The strangest people in the world. Chino and Misiamtewah. The Mo-quis welcome me gladly. 249- 267 CHAPTER XVII. AMONG THE AZTECS. Topography of Arizona. A region of hot sands and barren mountains, of fierce savages and gentle Indians, of rich mines and wild, forbidding wastes. The Mesa Ca-labasa. Zunis, Teguas, Moquis, Oraybes, Papagoes, Pimos, and Coco- Maricopas. Rapid decay of the wild tribes. Noble Navajoes. Their native shrewdness, industry and bravery. Who are they? Aztecs? Barboncito. Ganado Mucho. Their handi-work. Their temperance and endurance. Life at Moqui. " Ho, Melicano, messay vo!" Jesus Papa. Moqui theology. The " white Indians" of Arizona. Ruins. Aztec or Toltec? Comparison with mound- builders' remains. And South American Ruins. Only a theory. Which no one is bound to accept 268- 286 CHAPTER XVIII. FROM MOQUI TO THE COLORADO. Two hundred miles of desert. Aboriginal mail service. A new guide. His nd-soass. Good- bye. Chino! - Journey to the new Navajo camp. " Damn Espanol, shteal mooch." On the sandstone mesa. A pleasant party of four. " Todos muerlos, pero mas |