70 ARCH SPRING. 
other ornaments were lying around, the guide would not allow us to take away the slightest 
thing. When we had left, he took from his pouch a white powder, and muttering a prayer, 
blew it three times towards the altar. He then followed us, intimating by signs that upon other 
table-lands east, south, and west, there were similar consecrated spots. The white powder he had 
used we found to be pinole, the flour of parched corn. The object he said was “pidiendo 
fortuna,” asking a blessing from Montezuma and the sun, and praying for his “daily bread.” 
Passing through Zuiii, we pursued the train eight miles to Arch spring, where it was encamped. 
