About noon on Saturday
So for two whole , long , lovely days the little party of five camped on the mesa and enjoyed sweet converse . It is safe to say that never in all Bud 's life will he forget or get away from the influences of that day in such company . Gardley and the missionary proved to be the best of physicians , and Margaret 's ankle improved hourly under their united treatment of compresses , lotions , and rest . About noon on Saturday they broke camp , mounted their horses , and rode away across the stretch of white sand , through tall cornfields growing right up out of the sand , closer and closer to the great mesa with the castle-like pueblos five hundred feet above them on the top . It seemed to Margaret like suddenly being dropped into Egypt or the Holy Land , or some of the Babylonian excavations , so curious and primitive and altogether different from anything else she had ever seen did it all appear . She listened , fascinated , while Brownleigh told about this strange Hopi land , the strangest spot in America . Spanish explorers found them away back years before the Pilgrims landed , and called the country Tuscayan .