. To California and back;. dedwith firewood or garden-truck pass to and fro; andin small groups of chattering women one catches anoccasional glimpse of bright interrogating eyes and asaucy handsome face, in spite of the closely drawntapelo. If now some sturdy figure in clanking armorshould obligingly pass along, you would have an exactpicture of the place as it appeared two centuries and24 F*^ % Mm a half ago. Nothing but that figure has departedfrom the scene, and substantially nothing new hasentered in. It does not change. The hurrying ac-tivities and transitions of the outer world, fromwhic
. To California and back;. dedwith firewood or garden-truck pass to and fro; andin small groups of chattering women one catches anoccasional glimpse of bright interrogating eyes and asaucy handsome face, in spite of the closely drawntapelo. If now some sturdy figure in clanking armorshould obligingly pass along, you would have an exactpicture of the place as it appeared two centuries and24 F*^ % Mm a half ago. Nothing but that figure has departedfrom the scene, and substantially nothing new hasentered in. It does not change. The hurrying ac-tivities and transitions of the outer world, fromwhich it is separated by only a narrow arroyo^ countfor nothing here. One questions if the outline of ashadow has altered for generations. Ths Old House,where Coronado is said to have lodged in 1540, andthe Church of San Miguel, erected soon after, sackedin 1680, and rehabilitated in 1710, are not distin-guishable from their surroundings by any air ofsuperior age. All is old, a petrifaction of medievalhuman life done in More than a score of these many-storied, many-chambered communal homes are scattered over theTerritory, three of the most important of which maybe mentioned as lying adjacent to the present route:Isleta, Laguna, and Acoma. Isleta and Lagunaare within a stones-throw of the railroad, ten milesand sixty-six miles,respectively, beyond Albuquerque,and Acoma is reached from either Laguna or Cuberoby a drive of a dozen miles. The aboriginal inhabit-ants of the pueblos, an intelligent, complex, indus-trious and independent race, are anomalous amongNorth American natives. They are housed to-dayin the selfsame structures in which their forebearswere discovered, and in three and a half centuries ofcontact with Europeans their manner of life has notmaterially changed. The Indian tribes that roamedover mountain and plain have become wards of theGovernment, debased and denuded of whatever ofdignity they once possessed, ascribe what cause youwill for their present conditio
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