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Rh the village of Zuñi lay. At last the moon came out, and the stars shone in the zenith. A procession of clouds was floating in front of me, over the top of a dark, low hill. That hill was Zuñi, where I afterward spent weeks of instructive research in the house and the company of Mr. Cushing.

The name of Zuñi does not belong to the language of the tribe that bears it, but to the Queres idiom of the valley of the Rio Grande. The pueblo is named "Halona," and the Zuni Indians call themselves "A-shiui." They call the land they occupy "Shmano," a name the analogy of which with Cibola should not be overlooked. It is therefore not strange that the general direction in which Esteévanico went, and in which the monk followed at a regular distance behind him, was north. Unfortunately