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office; and, if elected, they must serve, whether they want to 

 or not. 



At noon the governor and his aids again appeared, and, in 

 gruff, coarse, emphatic, basic voices, gave the following and 

 last command of the day: "Sho yosch-shee tang-a ka-whee 

 pang-oo" — we command you (in the name of) all the gods of 

 our fathers, go to the election. This order likewise was not 

 obeyed. So the Indian constables were compelled to force at- 

 tendance; some of the Indians were dragged from their dark 

 rooms and carried, struggling, to the estufa. 



When all were within the secret religious hall, the cacique, 

 standing with his back against the post which separates the 

 north wall of that edifice into the two rainbow sections — the 

 section of the Rainbow in the West and that of the Rainbow 

 in the East, lifted his hands to heaven and out toward the sym- 

 bolic paintings of the house as he prayed long and earnestly to 

 his deities. After his prayer was completed, the retiring gov- 

 ernor, Augustine Pecos, gave his farewell address in the form 

 of a prayer, as follows: "0 Sun, Moon, Evening Star, 

 O Morning Star, Montezuma, etc., O all the gods of our 

 fathers, we indeed and in truth thank you for all things. We 

 thank you for the infants, we thank you for the young women, 

 we thank you for the young men, we thank you for the middle- 

 aged and old women, we thank you for the old men, we thank 

 you for the horses, we thank you for the mules, we thank you 

 for the cattle, we thank you for the corn, we thank you for the 

 wheat, ... we thank you for our kind neighbors (kya- 

 ba), we indeed and in truth thank you for all things." 



Then turning to his associates in office he said : "In the name 

 of the God of Day, of the God of Night, of the God of the Morn- 

 ing, of the God of the Evening, of the Great Water Snake, of 

 the Power-producing Flash Lightning, of Montezuma, . . . 

 and of all the gods of our fathers, I thank you all for j^our 

 faithful work. I thank you, cacique, I thank you, first assistant 

 cacique. I thank you, second assistant cacique. I thank you, 

 my first lieutenant-governor. I thank you, my secpnd assistant 

 lieutenant-governor. I thank you, war captain. I thank you, 

 assistant war captain. I thank you, our east-side ditch com- 

 missioner. ... I indeed and in truth thank you all for 

 your faithful work." 



Then, as he turned his face heavenward, he continued : "In 

 the year to come, as in the past, God of the Rain, give us 



