Captain Palma 
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journeys, from Mohave to the Moki Towns, the objective point 
of all entradas eastward from the Colorado. The importance 
attached at that time to the towns of the Moki probably seems 
absurd to the reader, but it must not be forgotten that the 
Moki were cultivators of the soil and always held a store of 
food-stuffs in reserve. They were also builders of very com¬ 
fortable houses, as I can testify from personal experience. 
Cocopa Woman Grinding Corn. 
Photograph by Delancy Gill. 
Thus they assumed a prominence, amidst the desolation of the 
early centuries, of which the railway in the nineteenth speedily 
robbed them. 
Garces, like most of his kind, was an enthusiast on the sub¬ 
ject of saving the souls of the natives. “It made him sick at 
heart,” says Coues, “to see so many of them going to hell for 
