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 Rh a honeycomb more than anything else." In lowland villages the dwellings are built of clay and stone. "The San Juan valley is strewn with ruins for hundreds of miles; some buildings, three storeys high, of masonry, are still standing." The Moquis and Zunis of to-day, whose habits and religious rites are known from the works of Mr. Gushing and Captain John G. Bourke, are apparently descendants of "a sedentary, agricultural, and comparatively cultivated race," whose decadence perhaps began "before the arrival of the Spaniards."

Rather, lower in the scale of culture than the settled Pueblo Indians were the hunter tribes of North America generally. They dwelt, indeed, in collections of wigwams which were partially settled, and the "long house" of the Iroquois looks like an approach to the communal system of the Pueblos. But while such races as Iroquois, Mandans, and Ojibbeways cultivated the maize plant, they depended for food more than did the Pueblo peoples on success in the chase. Deer, elk, buffalo, the wild turkey, the bear,