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Show but comfortable quarters for the winter at their camp at Hotevilla. The 25 men %ha had renounced their active hostility were kept busy during the fall with their crops; and the group who were working out their ninety days' sentence on the roads could not, for obvious reasons, have their occupation changed to village building among I their relatives and friends. By the expiration of their term it was time to fall to upon the preparation of the new season's crops. Just before their release 6 of their number agreed to the Government's terms and were permitted to take their children with them and go back' to Oraibi, where the little ones could attend the day school. The children of the others were not allowed to go home for vacation, as it would have been practically impossible to recover them if they had once been out of the Government's custody while the parents continued actively hostile. I may add that during their period of enforced labor the prisoners, among other things, built 15 miles of new road out of Keams canyon in the direction of Holbrook, which shortened the distance to the agency several miles and added greatly to the safety of travel. I went over it myself last summer and was greatly impressed by its workmanlike appearance. While they were still thus employed, I submitted tct them a proposition which had been laid before me for their further employment in the beet fields at Rocky Ford, Cola., but they refused to consider it, notwithstanding the pecuniary profit which such a contract wonld have brought them. Acceptance, of course, wonld have meant an absence of some months, a dreaded association with new and strange people, their adoption to some extent of the white man's habits and their subjection to his laws. With the release of the prisoners, the superintendent recommended that some one representing the Government be stationed at Hotevilla. He was therefore authorized to employ a policeman, and one of the now loyal hostiles was appointed to the position and appears to be doing his duty creditably. I went to the hostile " camp," so called, while I was at Oraibi in May last, and was pleased with what I saw. It deserves its designation as a camp, as distinguished from a new pueblo, only because the houses are separate and more or less scattered, instead of being built against or on top of each other like the cumulative chambers of a wasp's nest. I t is a more wholesome and generally better arrangenient, and I entertain some hope that this style of building will presently supplant the old style in the pref-erence of the people. Although rather more roughly put together than the pueblo houses, the new dwellings appear pretty comfortable, and their inhabitants as contented as could reasonably be expected under existing conditions. I have devoted so much space to the conduct and fate of the hostiles that I seen1 almost in danger of overlooking what has occurred in the |