. Some strange corners of our country; the wonderland of the Southwest . ashed, according to thePueblo custom, with gj3)sum. The rafters are the straighttrunks of tapering pines stripped of their bark, and abovethese is a roof of cross-sticks, straw, and clay, which isperfectly water-tight. The windows are all small—anotherrelic of the old days of danger—and in the more primitivehouses the windows are only translucent sheets of gj^ every room has its queer southwestern fiieplace, inwhich the sticks are biuned on end. Those for heating aloneare very tiny, and stand in a corner; but t
. Some strange corners of our country; the wonderland of the Southwest . ashed, according to thePueblo custom, with gj3)sum. The rafters are the straighttrunks of tapering pines stripped of their bark, and abovethese is a roof of cross-sticks, straw, and clay, which isperfectly water-tight. The windows are all small—anotherrelic of the old days of danger—and in the more primitivehouses the windows are only translucent sheets of gj^ every room has its queer southwestern fiieplace, inwhich the sticks are biuned on end. Those for heating aloneare very tiny, and stand in a corner; but the cooking fii-e-places often fill one side of a room, and under one of theilcapacious hoods nearly a dozen people could sit. As you may imagine from what has been said of then-houses, the Pueblos are very peculiar and interesting IndiansThey live very neatly and comfortably, and their homes aregenerally as clean as wax. They are jDcaceable and indus-trious, good hunters and brave warriors when need be, butquiet farmers by profession, as they were when the outside. THE NEW YORFPUBLIC LIBRARY A8TOR, LENOX AND | TILDEN FOUNDATto. - HOMES THAT WERE FORTS. 103 world fiist found tliem. Tlie^^ have always elected their ownofficials, and they obey the laws both of their own strangegovernment and of the United States in a way which theycertainty did not learn from us, for there is no Americancommunity nearly so law-abiding. They are entirely self-snpporting, and receive nothing from our government. Theyare not poor nor lazy, and they do not impose ser\ile tasksupon their wives. One of my Pueblo neighbors in Isleta lentthe hard cash to pay oif our troops in New Mexico duringthe civil war! Quite as interesting and remarkable as the best types ofpresent Pueblo communal houses are the ruins of theirstill more ancient homes. It was long supposed that theso-called Cliff-builders^ and Cave-dwellers were of anextinct race; and much more of silly and ignorant surmisethan of common-sense tru
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