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being both Hitraani, could never have become man and wife. The sanction of 

 the new creed has here broken down the ancient barrier. Membership in one 

 clan is not necessarily relationship so close as to fall under the ban of the Church 

 of Rome. The Indian yields to the church decision and to inclination and the 

 wedding takes place. 



The total population of Cochiti, which is one of the Queres group of Pueblos, 

 is now 273 persons — males 146, females 127. It is probable that just now the 

 number is growing. At the taking of the government census in 1890 there were 

 309 inhabitants. In 1894 came the terrible "mountain fever;" many died — 

 26 in a single week. In the summer of 1895 a second attack carried off many 

 others. But for the last two years the smitten community has prospered. • 



