Among the Pueblo Indians . n wereplaying, sometimes perilously near the edge, whileothers were descending the ladders with great agil-ity. From the top of this wonderfully built structurea fine view of the surrounding country was caiion from which the little mountain streamcomes bubbling down was before us, while toward thesouth, across the plain, lay the old town of Taos,with the marble-like peak at its side. All around,the high mountains towered into the azure sky, andat our feet were the fertile green fields in which thecountry abounds. The field north of the building is kept u
Among the Pueblo Indians . n wereplaying, sometimes perilously near the edge, whileothers were descending the ladders with great agil-ity. From the top of this wonderfully built structurea fine view of the surrounding country was caiion from which the little mountain streamcomes bubbling down was before us, while toward thesouth, across the plain, lay the old town of Taos,with the marble-like peak at its side. All around,the high mountains towered into the azure sky, andat our feet were the fertile green fields in which thecountry abounds. The field north of the building is kept under culti-vation for the priest, who receives the products of thesoil in payment for saying mass at the little churchnear by. The bucks, headed by the governor, wereat work in this field, their garments floating in thebreeze as they marched in file ploughing between therows of young corn. When the work was completed,and the priests acre in good condition, they shoul-dered their implements and marched on to theirhomes. 174. %\tc ill the ipucblo. Wishing for a glimpse of the natural beauties ofthe surrounding country, we, with Lorenzo in theback of the wagon, started for the canon. The morn-ing was beautiful, the sky cloudless, and the brightsunlight, shining on the neighboring hills, harmoni-ously blended the varied tints of the earth with thedeep blue of the sky. The road that follows the clear,sparkling mountain stream was very narrow, and thegrowth of trees on either side so dense that in someplaces the water, flowing some feet below us, was lost,to sight; then in the clearings, when the brook wasagain visible, trout could be plainly seen in the clearwater that sparkled as the sun shone on it throughthe leafy bowers overhead. A short distance up the caiion we came to a spotby the roadside which had been cleared of the treesthat in former times had grown there. The clearino;was circular in form, and covered an area of aboutone hundred feet square. This sjDot, Lorenzo said, wa
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