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Frank had studied the situation as well as he could, both from a map of the canyon which he found in the little guide book, and his own observations. All the while he kept before him that admission on the part of the old Moqui whom they had befriended, to the effect that the Westering sun shone full in Echo Cave.
"I have been thinking of it all day," said Thurstane. "We must give it up. Every one of the branch cañons on the other bank trends wrong. We couldn't cross them; we should have to follow them; it's an impassable hell of a country. We might by bare chance reach the Moqui pueblos; but the probability is that we should die in the desert of thirst. We shall have to run the river.
Moqui basketware serves equally well for useful purposes, such as scrap-baskets, and for ornamentation. The pottery of the Pueblo Indians, being naive and primitive in design, is much more intimate and therefore appropriate than the Japanese bric-a-brac which it replaces. The living-room is the heart of the house, and everything in it should be of a nature to collect loving associations.
"What route do you take from here?" asked the officer. "Pass Washington, as you call it. Then the Moqui country. Then the San Juan." "There is no possible road down the San Juan and the Colorado." "If we find that to be so, we will sweep southward. I am, in a measure, exploring. Garcia wants a route to Middle California." "I also have a sort of exploring leave.
Lennon came to a panting halt and stared about in frank surprise. He had fully expected to see the limp form of a dead Apache lying on the rocks. The girl sprang past him into a niche of the crag and bent to pick up a cartridge shell. "A thirty-two," she said. "Same calibre as my rifle.... And look at this track Apache-made moccasin. Easy to tell the print from that of a Pima or Moqui."
When the girl is ten years old her education properly begins and she is systematically inducted into the mysteries of housekeeping. At fifteen she has completed her curriculum and can cook, bake, sew, dye, spin and weave and is, indeed, graduated in all the accomplishments of the finished Moqui maiden.
There are none visible, but doubtless they exist." "And then he will march back here?" she demanded. "Not easily. I am afraid, my dear cousin, not very easily. There would be cañons to turn, and long ones. Probably he would strike for the Moqui country." "Across the desert? No water!" Coronado shrugged his shoulders as if to say that he could not help it.
Swinging to the northwest, the Water House and other clans formed the southern branch of the three from which the Moqui, or Hopi, people are descended. This last is history. The early Mormons remarked upon the pueblo ruins that lay near their first Little Colorado towns, above St. Joseph.
After they were arranged on a row of skins spread along the wall, a shy, meek, and pretty Moqui woman passed around a vase of water for drinking and a tray which contained something not unlike a bundle of blue wrapping paper. "Is this to wipe our hands on?" inquired Aunt Maria, bringing her spectacles to bear on the contents of the tray. "It smells like corn bread," said Clara. So it was.
A hard ride down the cañon for five miles or more, then up a steep break and across cedar-dotted mesas, brought the party out to the Moqui trail shortly after mid-morning. Lennon frowned at the clear-marked trail. His plans as first made had been to cut and run for the railway the moment he should reach the main trail.
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