ROCKY MOUNTAIN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 57 
traits in common that they are all denominated Pue- 
blos, chiefly because they build large stone or adobe 
communal houses of from one to six stories high. 
The best known of the tribes are the Pueblo, the Zuni, 
the Moqui,the Pima, the Isleta, and the San Ildefonso, 
all peaceful cultivators of the soil. These Indians are 
known to have had about the same habits and modes 
of life since the time of the expedition of Vasques Co- 
ronado in 1540-42, when in search of gold he plun- 
dered their cities. The work giving an account of 
his expedition was first published in English in 
1600.* 
By means of irrigation these Indians of New Mexico 
were enabled to cultivate the rich valleys and raise 
good crops of wheat, corn, cotton, flax, and a variety 
of vegetables. They had acquired a proficiency in 
many arts, such as the making of pottery, spinning 
and weaving, before they were visited by the expedi- 
tion referred to. These people have had the Gospel 
preached to them for two hundred years, and yet 
many of them are said to adhere to a sort of sun-wor- 
ship, and have houses in which they maintain a per- 
petual sacrificial fire. If it be a fact that they are sun- 
worshipers, it would naturally suggest an Asiatic 
origin or intercourse. Explorers have found in this 
region a few mounds resembling those of the Missis- 
■^I.ieut. Col. W. H. Emory, in Notes of a Military Reconnaissance 
from Fort Leavenworth to San Diego, Cal., page 133, gives the fol- 
lowing as the existing names of the seven towns most nearly con- 
forming to the locality of the ancient and marvelously rich seven 
cities: Cibolleta, Moquino, Pojuto, Covero, Acoma, Laguna, Pobla- 
con, the last in ruins. 
