Aunt Maria was particularly pleased with the specimens of her own sex; she went into ecstasies over their gentle physiognomies and their well-combed, carefully braided, glossy hair; she admired their long gowns of black woollen, each with a yellow stripe around the waist and a border of the same at the bottom.
"Such a sensible costume!" she said.

"So much more rational and convenient than our fashionable fripperies!" Another fact of great interest was that the Moquis were lighter complexioned than Indians in general.

And when she discovered a woman with fair skin, blue eyes, and yellow hair--one of those albinos who are found among the inhabitants of the pueblos--she went into an excitement which was nothing less than ethnological.
"These are white people," she cried, losing sight of all the brown faces.
"They are some European race which colonized America long before that modern upstart, Columbus.

They are undoubtedly the descendants of the Northmen who built the old mill at Newport and sculptured the Dighton Rock." "There is a belief," said Thurstane, "that some of these pueblo people, particularly those of Zuni, are Welsh.

A Welsh prince named Madoc, flying before the Saxons, is said to have reached America.