[The Romance of the Colorado River by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh]@TWC D-Link bookThe Romance of the Colorado River CHAPTER IV 23/35
Thomas Keam and he then went there with a force of Navajos and compelled the surrender of the chiefs who had been most obnoxious.
They took them to Ream's Canyon and confined them on bread and water till they apologised. Garces was not permitted to enter the house where his Yabipai guide intended to stop, and he therefore made his way to a corner formed by a jutting wall, and there unsaddled his faithful mule, which the Yabipai took to a sheep corral.
The padre remained in his corner, gathering a few scattered corn-stalks from the street, with which he made a fire and cooked a little atole.
All day long the people came in succession to stare at him.
I can testify to the sullen unfriendliness of the Oraibi, and I have seen few places I have left with greater pleasure than that I felt when, in 1885, I rode away from this town.
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