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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Then all we've got to fear, Frank, is the work of Eugene and his crowd. Let us keep clear of that bad lot, and we're going to succeed. Any time, now, we may glimpse our old Moqui, returning with a message from the professor, if he sees fit to reply to your appeal. He may, though, be so set and stubborn that nothing will move him from his game of hiding.
However, since their discovery their numbers have greatly diminished and steadily continue to decrease, as if it were also to be their fate to become extinct like the ancient cliff dwellers. The Moqui Pueblos are well protected by natural barriers upon all sides except towards the south.
In the early Spanish days Moqui land was designated as the Province of Tusayan and was shrouded in mystery. The seven Moqui towns were at one time regarded as the seven Cities of Cibola, but later it was decided that Zuni and not Moqui was the true Cibola.
"What d'ye think, Frank," he exclaimed, presently; "don't you remember promising to share our venison at breakfast with the Moqui?" "Why yes, to be sure I do; but what of that, Bob?" "Only that he didn't forget," laughed the other. Frank immediately glanced toward the carcase of the little antelope. "Ginger! he did go and cut himself a piece from it, sure enough," he admitted.
He gaped upward at the bare-faced wall that arose for hundreds of feet, without any particular ledge or outcropping where even a nimble Indian could find safe lodgment for his moccasined feet. "But, Frank, however could the old Moqui get up there to see Uncle Felix?" he asked.
These peculiar constructions of baked clay are still fashionable in such old towns as Suni, Taos and others. Situated as the Moqui villages and Acoma were, on the top of an inaccessible rock, the Spaniards despaired of conquering them. The supposed Cibola not panning out according to expectation, they did not seek reinforcement, and left the Pueblos in peace.
"That court is absolutely swept and dusted. One might give a ball there. I should like to hear Lucretia Mott speak in it." Her reflections were interrupted by the courteous gestures of a middle-aged, dignified Moqui, who was apparently inviting the party to enter one of the dwellings. Pepita and the other two Indian women, with the wounded muleteers, were taken to another house.
"We'll just have to do it, I guess, to satisfy the suspicious old fraud, Bob," he remarked; and then raising his hand, while his chum did likewise Frank went on, addressing the Moqui, who watched every action with glittering black eyes: "We promise not to follow, Havasupai, and will hope that this talking paper may cause the man-who-hides to send you for us to take us to him.
You understand all that I am saying, don't you?" The Moqui said something in his native language, which of course neither of them comprehended. But at the same time he reached out his hand and deliberately took the note intended for Uncle Felix. "Hurrah! he's going to act as our messenger!" exclaimed Bob, filled with anticipations of success.
First we run across that old Moqui, who has been in touch with the man we want to find; and now here's the one who comes up here every little while to deliver his goods, and get a new list, as well as money to pay for the same. It's just the limit, that's what!"
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