If the dream were true, if the Moquis were in the habit of sacrificing strong-minded women or any kind of women, she must know it and put a stop to it.

Stepping into the central room, where Thurstane and Glover were smoking with a number of Indians, she said in her prompt, positive way, "I must look into these people's religion.

Does anybody know whether they have any ?" The Lieutenant had a spark or two of information on the subject.

Through the medium of a Navajo who had strolled into the pueblo, and who spoke a little Spanish and a good deal of Moqui, he had been catechising the chief as to manners, customs, etc.
"I understand," he said, "that they have a sacred fire which they never suffer to go out.

They are believed to worship the sun, like the ancient Aztecs.