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3. At the dances they were all well dressed. At the present season they are far from destitute Their superstition is the only thing that keeps them at [not legible]. This will not permit them to plant their crops at [not legible] when they should be sown in April. Because of their lab planting, many of their corn fields are not right and will not ripen. This will make food scarce with them this season after and I look for much suffering among them. I had a big council with them. Their chief, Navajo, is an old fossil used to ancient customs and superstitions. He has absolute control over his tribe, which numbers about 250. He emphatically and positively refused to let me have any of his children for my school. On the other hand he modestly wanted the earth from his big friend the Great Father at Washington. They complained of ill-treatment at the hands of the whites I could not learn of any were authorized incidences.