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Not a shriek, however, escaped her mouth, for although surprised, the woman had presence of mind enough to think that either Tyope or some Navajo must have attacked her. In either case it was useless to scream, for in either case she was lost. As soon however as she was able to glance at her captor her worst fears were dispelled.
I ran forward, looking on all sides for the objects of my solicitude. The wave of female dresses caught my eye, far up the cliff, on the road leading to the Navajo captives. It was they! The three were climbing the steep path, each urged onward by a savage. My first impulse was to rush after; but at that moment fifty horsemen made their appearance upon the hill, and came galloping downward.
Shefford wondered if Shadd would have chosen that course if he had not supposed the Navajo had chosen it first. It was plain that one of the walking Piutes stooped now and then to examine the rock. He was looking for some faint sign of a horse track. Shadd halted within two hundred yards of where Shefford lay hidden.
That knowledge has not penetrated into pack-ratdom. A few Hopi and Supai Indians were darting around on show ponies, spotted and striped "Paints," as they call them. A Navajo lad came tearing down upon us, riding a most beautiful sorrel mare. It seemed that he would ride us down; but I never did run from an Indian, so I stood my ground.
Frank expressed the trend of thought by asking, "We now march into the heart of the Navajo country, do we not, sir?" "Not precisely through the heart, but along its southern border." "They'll try to make it lively for us, I suppose?" "They will certainly watch us closely, and will take advantage of any carelessness on our part." "Do you think there is any chance of our finding Manuel Perea?"
Unless some other race than the Iberian take possession of these lands, the Apache, the Navajo, and the Comanche, the conquered of Cortez and his conquerors, will yet drive the descendants of those very conquerors from the soil of Mexico. Look at Sonora and Chihuahua, half-depopulated!
In the settlement of what now is southern Navajo County, the Mormon settlers a bit overran the present line of the Apache Indian reservation, where they located early in 1878 upon what now is known as Forest Dale Creek, a tributary of Carrizo Creek.
August's replies were slow and labored; he could not speak the Navajo language fluently, but he understood it. "The White Prophet is welcome," was the chief's greeting. "Does he come for sheep or braves or to honor the Navajo in his home?" "Eschtah, he seeks the Flower of the Desert," replied August Naab. "Mescal has left him.
Or you may skip the short trip out to Zuñi off the main traveled highway, and the long trip south through the White Mountains two weeks at the very shortest, and you should make it six and leave Gallup, just at the State line of Arizona, drive north-west across the Navajo Reserve and Moki Land to the Coconino Forests and the Tusayan and the Kaibab, round the Grand Cañon up towards the State lines of California and Utah.
The cook wore the gorgeous Navajo blanket tied around his waist and carried in one band the waxen-white Spanish dagger blossom as large as a peck-measure and weighing fifteen pounds. His hat was ornamented with mesquite branches and yellow ratama blooms. A resurrected mosquito bar served as a veil.
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