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Excerpt from The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona: Being a Narrative of a Journey From Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Villages of the Moqui Indians of Arizona, With a Description of the Manners and Customs of the Peculiar People, and Especially of the Revolting Religious Rite, the Snake-Dance; To Which Is A The author has endeavoured to present a truthful description of religious rites, the very existence of which is known to but few of our people, and a narrative of incidents which may serve to entertain and amuse, if they do not instruct, those into whose hands this book may fall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.