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could stop the wagon ; but when all the slack in the rope was 

 taken up, the result need not be mentioned. 



The Apache has learned more about a wagon since then; 

 but to this day, when hitching to it he hooks the tugs first 

 and puts up the neck-yoke last. 



THE ELECTION OF THE INDIA.N GOVERNOR AT JEMEZ, NEW MEXIC", 

 DECEMBER 29, 1900. 



[Read by title before Section H at the Philadelphia meeting of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, 1904.] 



At about three o'clock in the morning of December 29, 1900, 

 Victoriana Gachupine, the Indian who chored for me, woke 

 me and said : "They have built the fires of the gods." I 

 went to the house roof, and sure enough a huge fire was burn- 

 ing just without the pueblo in each of the cardinal directions, 

 one to each of their deities. The one to the south represented 

 the sun, the one to the north the moon, the one to the east 

 the morning star, the one to the west the evening star. 



"To-day is election day," broke in Mr. Gachupine, as he 

 joined me on the housetop. "Last night," he continued, "the 

 cacique and chief religious men and medicine men met and 

 cast corn (cast lots) to see who would be a suitable man for 

 governor (this is the Jemez mode of nominating a candidate) . 

 To-day we will vote for the governor and other officers." 



At that instant the heavy, guttural, basic command of the 

 governor and his aids, who just then entered the plaza on 

 their commanding tour, broke the stillness of the early morn- 

 ing with : "0-wah bah kwal-la-shoo ka-whee pang-a-oong- 

 hung" — go to the south estufa to vote for governor to-day. 

 This they repeated time after time as they made the circuit 

 of the entire village. 



After this commanding tour was completed nothing farther 

 of interest was noticeable till about ten o'clock in the forenoon, 

 except that guards were put out on every side of the village to 

 prevent any of the male Indians above twenty years of age 

 from leaving the place. At ten o'clock the governor and his 

 aids again appeared in the public square, and, as they walked 

 around and around the streets of the village, they gave the 

 command : "Bah ka-whee pang-oo" — go to the election. This 

 order was not obeyed. The Jemez never care to attend an elec- 

 tion. If there they stand a chance of being elected to some 



