Four were at work amongst the various towns at the time of the Pueblo uprising in 1680, and as one began his labours at Oraibi as early as 1650, a priest was not an unknown object to the older people.

All the missionaries having been killed in 1680, and Awatuwi, where a fresh installation was made, having been annihilated in 1700 by the Moki, for three-quarters of a century they had seen few if any Spaniards.

Therefore the women and children were full of curiosity.
Padre Escalante had been here from Zuni the year before, looking over the situation with a view to bringing all the Moki once more within the fold.

At that time Escalante also tried to go on to what he called the Rio de los Cosninos, the Colorado, but he was unable to accomplish his purpose.

Had he once had a view of the Grand Canyon it would undoubtedly have saved him a good many miles of weary travel in his northern entrada of this same year that Garces reached Oraibi.
* A year or two after my visit, James Stevenson, of the Bureau of Ethnology, was driven away from Oraibi.