The weapons most in use among the Pueblos are the bow and arrow, with a long-handled lance and occasionally a fusil. The rawhide shield is also much used, which, though of but little service against fire-arms, serves to ward off the arrow and lance. The aliment of these Indians is, in most respects, similar to that of the Mexicans; in fact, as has been elsewhere remarked, the latter adopted with their utensils numerous items of aboriginal diet. The _tortilla_, the _atole_, the _pinole_,[34] and many others, together with the use of _chile_, are from the Indians. Some of the wilder tribes make a peculiar kind of _pinole_, by grinding the bean of the mezquite tree into flour, which is then used as that of corn. And besides the tortilla they make another singular kind of bread, if we may so style it, called _guayave_, a roll of which so much resembles a 'hornets' nest,' that by strangers it is often designated by this title. It is usually made of Indian corn prepared and ground as for tortillas, and diluted into a thin paste. {281} I once happened to enter an Indian hut where a young girl of the family was baking _guayaves_. She was sitting by a fire, over which a large flat stone was heating, with a crock of prepared paste by her side. She [Pg067] thrust her hand into the paste, and then wiped it over the heated stone. What adhered to it was instantly baked and peeled off. She repeated this process at the rate of a dozen times or more per minute. Observing my curiosity, the girl handed me one of the 'sheets,' silently; for she seemed to understand but her native tongue. I found it pleasant enough to the taste; though when cold, as I have learned by experience, it is, like the cold tortilla, rather tough and insipid. They are even thinner than wafers; and some dozens, being folded in a roll, constitute the laminate composition before mentioned. Being thus preserved, they serve the natives for months upon their journeys. FOOTNOTES: [18] On the subject of Pueblo Indians, consult T. Donaldson, _Moqui Pueblo Indians of Arizona and Pueblo Indians of New Mexico_ (Washington, 1893), extra bulletin of eleventh census; John T. Short, North _Americans of Antiquity_ (New York, 1880); A. F. A. Bandelier, Archæological Institute of America _Papers_, American Series, i-iv; N. O. G. Nordenskiold, _Cliff-dwellers of the Mesa Verde_ (Chicago and Stockholm, 1893); C. F. Lummis, _Land of Poco Tiempo_ (New York, 1893).--ED.