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three villages thereon. We were received with 

 friendly courtesy — perhaps partly because we 

 endeavored to show good manners ourselves, 

 w^hich, I am sorry to say, is not invariably the 

 case with tourists. The houses were colored 

 red or white; and the houses individually, and 

 the villages as villages, compared favorably 

 with the average dwelling or village in many 

 of the southern portions of Mediterranean Eu- 

 rope. Contrary to what we had seen in the 

 Hopi village near Tuba, most of the houses 

 were scrupulously clean; although the condi- 

 tion of the streets — while not worse than in 

 the Mediterranean villages above referred to — 

 showed urgent need of a crusade for sanitation 

 and elementary hygiene. The men and women 

 were well dressed, in clothes quite as picturesque 

 and quite as near our own garb as the dress 

 of many European peasants of a good type; 

 aside, of course, from the priests and young 

 men who were preparing for the ceremonial 

 dance, and who were clad, or unclad, accord- 

 ing to the ancient ritual. There wxre several 

 rooms in each house; and the furniture included 

 stoves, sewing-machines, chairs, window-panes 

 of glass, and sometimes window-curtains. There 

 were wagons in one or two of the squares, for 

 a wagon road has been built to one end of the 



