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Show AMONG THE AZTECS. 279 joes, but much finer, six or seven women grinding together, reducing the flour to the merest dust. It is then mixed as thin as milk ; the woman cooking dashes a handful on the hot stone, where it cooks al-most instantly, and conies off no thicker than paper, and of a bright blue color. The flakes are about two feet long, and as they are stacked two or three feet deep on the platter, look remarkably like a pile of blue silk. They raise white, blue, and red corn ; and by va-rious mixtures produce bread of seven different colors. They are not as clean in their cooking as the Navajoes, and it is hinted that they sometimes mix their meal with chamber- lye for these feslive occa-sions ; but I did not know that till I talked with Mormons who had visited them. The piece de resistance was the hinder half of a very fat young dog, well cooked, that animal being the favorite food of the Moquis. It is subject to greater extremes than beef; the meat of an old, lean dog is very tough, and that of a fat, young puppy, very tender. I took from my own store a box of sardines, and Misiamtewah was prevailed upon to eat one ; but Chino and the rest rejected them with horror. There's gastronomic prejudice for you! This man is sweet on dog, and rejects a sardine with abhorrence. My Eastern friends take sar-dines with avidity, but their gorge rises at the thought of dog, while my catholic stomach takes dog and sardine with equal impartiality. Parched corn completed the bill of fare, with beverage of goat's milk. Both the Moquis and Navajoes never use it until heated almost to the boiling point ; but after one cup of this, I requested and was served with mine cold. The stove, ingeniously constructed of flat stones, is either on the ground just beside the door, or on the roof, of the first story, by the door of the second. With my Navajo guide and Chino's son, we formed a very pleasant party of six, and had quite a social time. The second interpreter informed me that he went to Prescott with Melicanoes and Mesh-icanoes, and that they named him it was probably in sport Jesus Papa ( Hay- soos Pahpah.) He was much more communicative than Misiamtewah, and had a very fair idea of the Americans. To these simple people I represented in person all the dignity of that great nation, of whom such wonderful reports had reached them. And here I must own to a little deceit. They were at first very in-quisitive as to my business, and could not imagine why a white man should be making such a long trip with only Indians for companions. Savage people can rarely understand that intelligent curiosity which is the product of civilization, and suspect some ulterior purpose when |