Chapter 13 of Arizona's Sketches by Joseph A. Monk This LibreBox recording is in the public domain, reading by Bologna Times. The Mulky Indians The Indians of Arizona are, perhaps, the most interesting of any of the American aborigines. They are as unique and picturesque as is the land which they inhabit, and the dead are no less so than the living. The Pueblo Indians, with which the Mulquys are classed, number altogether about 10,000 and are scattered in 26 villages over Arizona and New Mexico. They resemble each other in many respects, but do not all speak the same language. They represent several wholly disconnected stems and are classified linguistically by Brinton, belonging to the Uto Aztecan, Kera, Tehua, and Zuni stocks. He believes that the Pueblo civilization is not due to any one unusually gifted lineage, but is altogether a local product developed in independent tribes by their peculiar environment, which is favorable to agriculture and sedentary pursuits. The houses are constructed of stone and adobe, are several stories high, and contain many apartments.  Since the advent of the Spaniard, the style of building has changed somewhat in form to modern ideas, so that now some families live in separate one-story houses having doors and windows, instead as formerly only in large communal houses that were built and conducted on the communal plan. Their manners and customs are peculiar to themselves and make an interesting study. Their civilization is entirely original, though modified to some extent by centuries of contact with the Whites. They understand the Spanish language, but have not forgotten their mother tongue. They hold tenaciously to their old customs and have not changed materially during the past 400 years. During that time, the Catholic missionaries endeavored to convert them to Christianity, but with only partial success. While they appeared to Aquias by giving formal obedience to the requirements of the new religion, they yet held sacred their old beliefs and, in the privacy of the Istufa, practiced in secret the rites and ceremonies of their ancient faith. The Spaniards undertook to conquer a free and independent people by teaching them dependence and submission, but signally failed. After a struggle of 280 years, Spanish civilization withdrew and left the Pueblo civilization victorious. Under successive Spanish, Mexican, and American rule, the Pueblo has preserved itself intact, which fact-steps the Pueblo people as being imminently valiant, self-reliant, and persevering. They are peaceable, industrious, and hospitable, and are said to be the best-governed people in the world. As nearly as can be ascertained, they are free from every gross vice and crime, and Mr. CF Lomas, who knows them well, believes them to be a crime-less people. The Mokwis of Arizona are the most primitive of the Pueblo Indians and are worthy representatives of their race. They are of the Aztecan branch of the Cheshonian family and probably the lineal descendants of the cliff-dwellers. Their home is on the painted desert in northeastern Arizona where they have lived for many centuries. It is a barren and desolate spot and has been likened to Hades with its fires extinguished. Nevertheless, it is an exceedingly interesting region and furnishes many attractions. The landscape is highly picturesque and the phantasmagoric effects of the rarefied atmosphere are bewitching. In the early Spanish days, Mokwi land was designated as the province of Tucean and was shrouded in mystery. The seven Mokwi towns were at one time regarded as the seven cities of Cebola, but later it was decided that Zuni and not Mokwi was the true Cebola. When Coronado, at the head of his intrepid army, marched through the land in the year 1540, he procured native guides to aid him in exploring the country, hoping to find fabulous wealth which failed to materialize. He had heard of a race of giants whom he wished to meet, but instead of finding them, discovered a river with banks so high that they, quote, seemed to be raised three or four leagues into the air, unquote. What he saw was the Colorado River with its gigantic canyon walls and wealth of architectural grandeur and beauty. The bewildering sight naturally astonished him as it does every beholder. Think of a fisher in the earth over a mile deep, but the Grand Canyon of Arizona is more than a simple fisher in the earth. It is composed of many canyons which form a seemingly endless labyrinth of winding aisles and majestic avenues, fit promenades for the gods. The land of the Mokwinos is full of surprises, and although they are not as startling as the Grand Canyon, they are sufficiently striking to make Arizona a wonderland that is second to none on the continent. The Mokwis live in seven towns or pueblos which are built upon three rocky maces that are many miles apart. The mesas are about 7,000 feet above sea level and from 6 to 800 feet higher than the surrounding plain. Upon the first or eastern mesa are located the three towns of Teua, Sichompovi, and Walpi. Teua is the newest of the three towns and was built by the Teuan allies who came as refugees from the Rio Grande after the Great Rebellion of 1680. They were granted permission to build on the spot by agreeing to defend the gap where the trail leaves the mesa against all intruders. Upon the second or middle mesa are the towns of Mi-Shang-Novi, Sheep-Poliovi, and Shang-O-Pavi. And on the third mesa is O'Ripe, which is the largest of the Mokwi villages and equal to the other six in size and population. The entire population of the seven Mokwi towns numbers about 2,000 souls. In 1583 Espeyo estimated that the Mokwis numbered 50,000, which, doubtless, was an overestimate, as he has been accused of exaggeration. However, since their discovery their numbers have greatly diminished and steadily continued to decrease as if it were also to be their fate to become extinct, like the ancient clipped-dwellers. The Mokwi Pueblos are well-protected by natural barriers upon all sides except towards the south. Perched upon their high mases, the people have been safe from every attack of an enemy, but their fields and flocks in the valley below were defenseless. The top of the several mases can only be reached by ascending steep and difficult trails, which are hard to climb but easy to defend. The paths of the mases have been cut deep into the hard rock, which were worn by the soft tread of moccasin feet during centuries of travel, numbering perhaps several times the 400 years that are known to history. The houses are built of stone and mortar and rise in terraces from one to five stories high, back from a street or court to a sheer wall. Some of the remodeled and newly built houses have modern doors and windows. The upper stories are reached from the outside by ladders and stone stairways built into the walls. The rooms are smoothly plastered and whitewashed, and the houses are kept tidy and clean, but the streets are dirty and unsanitary. In these sky cities, the Mokwis live a retired life that is well-suited to their quiet dispositions, love of home life, and tireless industry. The men are kind, the women virtuous, and the children obedient. Indeed, the children are unusually well-behaved. They seldom quarrel or cry, and a spoiled child cannot be found among them. The Mokwis love peace and never fight among themselves. If a dispute occurs, it is submitted to a peace council of old men whose decision is final and obeyed without a murmur. They are shy and suspicious of strangers, but if addressed by the magic word laloming, their reserve is instantly gone. It is the open sesame to their hearts and homes, and after that the house contains nothing too good to bestow upon the welcomed guest. They are true children of nature and have not yet become corrupted by the vices of white civilization. The worst thing they do is that the men smoke tobacco. Their industries are few, but afford sufficient income to provide for their modest needs. They are primarily tellers of the soil, and as agriculturists succeed under circumstances that would wholly battle and discourage an eastern farmer. Several years ago a man was sent out from Washington to teach the Mokwis agriculture, but before a year had passed, the teacher had to buy corn from the Indians. They make baskets and pottery, weave cloth, and dress skins for their own use and to barter and trade with their neighbors. They like silver and have skilled work-bin who make the white metal into beads and buttons and various trinkets for personal adornment. They care nothing for gold, and silver is their only money. Chochihutl is their favorite gem, and to own a turquoise stone is regarded as an omen of good fortune to the happy possessor. Just how the Spaniards got the notion that the Mokwis loved gold and possessed vast stores of that precious metal is not apparent unless it be, as Bandelir suggests, that it originated in the myth of the Eldorado, or Gilded Man. The story started at Lake Quattanita in Bogota and traveled north to Quivera, but the wealth that the Spaniards sought, they never found. Their journey led them over deserts that gave them but little food and only a meager supply of water and ended in disaster. The Maces are all rock and utterly barren, and their supplies are all brought from a distance over difficult trails. The water is carried in olas by the women from springs at the foot of the Mesa. Wood is packed on burrows from distant forests, and corn, melon, and peaches are brought home by the men when they return from their work in the fields. A less active and industrious people under similar circumstances would soon starve to death, but the Mokwis are self-supporting and have never asked nor received any help from Uncle Sam. In the early morning, the public crier proclaims instantorian tones from the housetop, the program for the day, which sends everyone to his daily task. They are enured to labor and do not count work as a hardship. It is only by incessant toil that they succeed at all in earning a living with the scanty resources at their command, and the only surprise is that they succeed so well. There is scarcely an hour during the day or night that men and women are not either coming or going on some errand to provision the home. The men travel many miles every day going to and from their work in the fields. If a man owns a borough, he sometimes rides, but usually prefers to walk. What the borough does not pack, the man carries on his back. He often sings at his work, just as the white man does in any farming community, and his song sounds good. The borough is the common carrier and because of his sterling qualities is a prime favorite in all of the pueblos. The man has any faults they are condoned except one, that of theft. If he is caught eating in a cornfield he is punished as a thief by having one of his ears cut off, and if the offense is repeated he loses his other ear in the same manner. The area of tellable land is limited and is found only in small patches which causes the farms to be widely scattered. The soil is mostly sand which the wind drifts into dunes to cover and destroy the growing crops. The peach trees are often buried in sand and only their top branches remain visible. There are no running streams of water and rains are infrequent. Corn is the principal crop in support of the mulquies. If there is a good crop, the surplus is stored away and kept to be used and the future should a crop fail. The corn is planted in irregular hills and cultivated with a hoe. The corn is planted with a stick and covered up. There is always enough moisture in the sand to sprout the seed which, aided by an occasional shower, causes it to grow and mature a crop. The corn is of a hardy, native variety that needs but little water to make it grow. The grain is small and hard like popcorn and ripens in several colors. It is carried home from the field by the men The sound of the grinding is heard in the street and is usually accompanied by a song that sounds weird but musical. The meal is ground into different braids of fineness and when used for bread is mixed with water to form a thin batter which is spread by the hand upon a hot, flat stone. It is quickly baked and makes a thin wafer that is no thicker than paper. When done it is removed from the stone and then removed from the mold which makes their prized pichi bread. It is said to be only one of 50 different methods which the Mokkuis have of preparing corn for the table or about twice the number of styles known to any modern chef. The Mokki woman is favored above many of her sex who live in foreign lands. As a child she receives much attention and toys galore as the parents are very fond of each time to their amusement. They make dolls of their kachinas which are given to the children to play with. A kachina is the emblem of a deity that is represented either in the form of a doll carved out of wood woven into a plaque or a basket or painted on tiles and pottery. There are between 300 and 400 kachina dolls each one representing a different divinity. When the girl is given to a child it is taught what it means thus combining instruction with amusement. The method is a perfect system of kindergarten teaching which the Mokkuis invented and used centuries before the idea occurred to Frobel. When the girl is 10 years old her education properly begins and she is systematically inducted into the mysteries of housekeeping. At 15 she has completed bake, sew, dye, spin, and weave and is indeed graduated in all the accomplishments of the Finnish Mokkui maiden. She now does up her hair in two large coils or whirls one on each side of the head which is meant to resemble a full blown squash blossom and signifies that the wearer is of marriageable age and in the matrimonial market. It gives her a striking yet unbecoming appearance and if her style of quaffir were adopted by modern fashion it would be something unusually attractive. As represented by Donaldson in the 11th census report the handsome face of Puticchi a maiden of the Pueblo of Sicho Movi makes a pretty picture that even her white sisters must admire. After marriage the hair is let down and done up in two hard twists and it will fall over the shoulders. This form represents a ripe, dried squash blossom and means fruitfulness. Her dress is not Spanish nor yet altogether Indian but is simple, comfortable and becoming which is more than can be said of some civilized costumes. She chooses her own husband inherits her mother's name and property and owns the house in which she lives and she so dearly loves to do in our own civilization the property and labor of the Mokui husband and wife are equally divided the former owning and tending the fields and flocks and the latter possessing and governing the house. The Mokuis are famous for the games, dances and festivals which have been fully described by Dr. J. Walter Fuchs in various reports to the Smithsonian institution. They have many secret orders, worship the supernatural and believe in witchcraft. Their great fate day is the snake dance which is held in alternate years at Walpi and Ori Bay at the former place in the odd year and at the latter place in the even year sometime during the month of August. It is purely a religious ceremony and elaborate supplication for rain and is designed to propitiate water god or snake deity. Preliminary ceremonies are conducted in the secret kiva several days proceeding the public dance. The kiva is an underground chamber that is cut out of the solid rock and is entered by a ladder. It has but a single opening on top on a level with the street which serves as door, window and chimney. The room is only used by the men and is in fact a lodge room where the members of the several secret orders meet and engage in their solemn ceremonials. It is a sacred place a holy of holies which none but members of a lodge may enter and is carefully guarded. The snakes used in the dance are all wild and captured out on the open plain. Four days prior to the dance the snake men, dressed in scanty attire and equipped with their snake capturing paraphernalia, search out in squads and scour the surrounding country in search of snakes. One day each is spent in searching the ground towards the four points of the compass in the order of north, west, south and east, returning at the close of each day with their catch to the kiva where the snakes are kept and prepared for the dance. The snakes caught are of several varieties but much the largest number are rattlesnakes. Respect is shown for serpents of every deity, and none are ever intentionally harmed, but the rattlesnake is considered the most sacred and is proportionately esteemed. Its forked tongue represents lightning. Its rattle, thunder, and its spots rain clouds. The number of snakes they find is surprising as they catch from one to two hundred during the four days hunt on ground that might be carefully searched by white men for months without finding a single reptile. Snakes men are very expert in catching and handling serpents and are seldom bitten. If one is bitten it is nothing serious as they have a secret medicine which they use that is both prophylactic and curative and makes them immune to the poison so that no harm ever results from a bite. The medicine is taken internally and also applied locally. Efforts have been made to discover its composition but without success. The rattlesnake is located which shows fight by the act of coiling. It is tickled with a snake whip made of eagle's feathers which soon soothes its anger and causes it to uncoil and try to run away. It is then quickly and safely caught up and dropped from the hand into a bag carried for that purpose. Visitors who attend the dance are under no restrictions but are free to come and go as they please either sightseeing or curios. If the visitor has a supply of candy, matches and smoking tobacco to give away he finds frequent opportunities to bestow his gifts. The children ask for candy. The women want matchy and the men are pleased with a smoke. On the morning of the dance both men and women give their hair an extra washing by using a mixture of water and crushed soap root. The white fibers of the soap root get mixed with the hair which gives it a tinge of iron gray. The children also get a bath which, because of the great scarcity of water, is not of daily occurrence. To the moquies the snake dance is a serious and solemn affair but to the visitors it is apt to be an occasion for fun and frolic. Owing to a misunderstanding of its true meaning and because of misconduct in the past on similar occasions notice is post on the Kiva asking visitors to abstain from loud laughing and talking. In other words, it is a polite request made by the rude red man of his polished question mark, white brother, to please behave himself. The dance begins late in the afternoon and lasts less than an hour but while it is in progress the action is intense. The snakes are carried in a bag or jar from the Kiva to the Kisa built of cotton wood boughs on one side of the plaza where the snakes are handed out to the dancers. After much marching and counter-marching about the plaza chanting weird songs and shaking rattles the columnist snake priest dressed in a fantastic garb of paint, fur and feathers halts in front of the Kisa and breaks up into groups of three. The carrier takes a snake from the Kisa puts it in his mouth while dancing. Some of the more ambitious young men will carry two or more of the smaller snakes at the same time. The hooker throws his left arm over the shoulder of the carrier and with his right hand fans the snake with his feather whip. The gatherer follows after and picks up the snakes as they fall to the ground. After the snakes have all been danced they are thrown into a heap and sprinkled with sacred cornmeal by the young women. The gathering of the meal is accompanied by a shower of spittle from the spectators who are stationed on convenient roofs and ladders viewing the ceremony. Fleet runners now catch up the snakes in handfuls and dash off in an exciting race over the Mesa and down rocky trails to the plains below where the snakes are returned unharmed to their native haunts. While the men are away disposing of the reptiles the women carry out large olas or jars filled with a black liquid which is the snake medicine that is used in the final act of purification by washing. When the men return to the Mesa they remove their regalia and proceed to drink of the snake medicine which acts as an emetic. With the remainder of the concoction and assisted by the women they wash their bodies free from paint. After the men are all washed and puked they re-enter the Kiva where the long fast is broken by a feast and the formal ceremonies of the snake dance are ended. The snake dance is annually witnessed by many visitors who gather from different sections of the country and even foreign lands. As there are no hotels to entertain guests every visitor must provide his own outfit for conveyance, eating and sleeping. Even water local springs barely furnish enough water to supply the native population and when the number of people to be supplied is increased from 1 to 200 by the visitors who attend the dance the water question becomes a serious problem. On the lower portion of the road which leads up from the spring to the gap at Wulpi on the first Mesa the trail is over drifted sand which makes difficult walking. To remedy this defect in the trail a path has been made of flat stones laid in the sand which shows that the Mokwi are quick to recognize and utilize an advantage that contributes to their convenience and comfort. The Santa Fe Pacific is the nearest railroad which runs about 100 miles south of the Mokwi villages. The tourists can secure transportation at reasonable rates of local liverymen either from Holbrook Winslow, Canyon Diablo or Magstow. The trip makes an enjoyable outing that is full of interest and instruction from start to finish. Some years ago the government through its agents began to civilize and Christianize these Indians and established a school at Keem's Canyon nine miles east of the first Mesa for that purpose. When the school was opened the requisition for a specified number of children from each Pueblo was not filled until secured by force. As free citizens of the United States being such by the treaty made with Mexico in 1848 and indeed already so under a system of self-government superior to our own and established long before Columbus discovered America they naturally resented any interference in their affairs but being in the minority and overpowered had to submit. When the object of the school was explained to them they consented to receive secular instructions but objected to any religious teaching. They asked to have schools opened in the Pueblos on the plan of our public schools where the children could attend during the day and return home at night and their home life be not broken up but the prayer was denied. The reservation school was open for the purpose of instructing the Milwaukee children in civilization but the results obtained have not been entirely satisfactory. The methods employed for enforcing discipline have been unnecessarily severe and have given dissatisfaction. As recently as the year 1903 the children of this inoffensive and harmless people were forcibly taken from their homes and put into the schools. The time selected for doing the dastardly deed was during the night in mid-winter when the weather was cold and covered with snow. Under the orders of the superintendent the reservation police made the raid without warning or warrant of any kind. While the people slept the police entered their houses, dragged the little children from their comfortable beds and drove them naked out into the snow and cold where they were rounded up and herded like cattle. The indignity and outrage until they have lost what little respect they ever had for Christianity and civilization. The policy of the government is to make them do whatever they do not want to do to break up the family as scatter its members. The treatment has created two factions among the Mokwis known as the hostiles who are only hostile and opposing oppression and any change in their religious faith and customs that the boss placed over them and comply with his demands. Religion is the dearest treasure of mankind and when assailed always finds ready defenders. Possessed by this innate feeling of right and rankling with the injustice of the past is it surprising that they should spurn any proffered help? They remember what they have suffered in the past and do not care to repeat the experiment. To this day the Mokwis hold and nothing could induce them to accept voluntarily any proposition that savored of the old regime. Every vestige of that period has been obliterated from the Pueblos that nothing tangible should remain to remind them of their undeserved humiliation. They are a highly religious people worshipping after their own creed and are sincere and conscientious in their devotions. Almost everything they do has some religious significance and every day it's religious observance. Their religion satisfies them and harms no one. Then why not leave them in peace? We believe that we can benefit them which is doubtless true but might they not also teach us some useful lessons? It would sometimes be more to our credit if we were less anxious to teach others and more willing to learn ourselves. Next to their religion they love their homes most. The rocks upon which they live are they not dear from associations? Is it not the land of their birth and the home of their fathers during many generations? They cling with stubborn tenacity to their barren maces and nothing thus far has succeeded in driving them away. Neither war, pestilence, nor famine. Repeated attempts have been made to induce them to leave but without success. Tom Pollocky, the principal man of Tewa was the first man to respond to the call to come down. He left the maces several years ago and went to the plain below to live. Having captured the bellwether it was presumed that the balance of the flock would soon follow but the contrary proved to be true. At the foot of the bluff near a spring on the road that leads up to the gap with the white man but the change did not suit him and after living in his modern house for a number of years he finally sold it and returned to his old home on the mesa. A few others at different times have tried the same experiment with no better success. The man would stay for a short time in the house provided for him but never made it a permanent home for his family. It is custom when a youth contemplates matrimony to make a marriage blanket. He grows the cotton, spends the yarn and weaves the cloth which requires a year or more of time to finish. Since the children have gone to school it is not deemed necessary for a young man to go to so much trouble and expense as to make a marriage blanket but instead he borrows one from a friend in the village and after the ceremony he never returns it to the owner. Even now it is not easy to find such a blanket and very soon they will be priceless as no more such garments will be made. The only reasonable explanation why any people should select a location like that of the Mokwiz is on the hypothesis of choice. There is much of the animal in human nature that is influenced by instinct and man like the brute often unconsciously selects his must congenial to his nature. Thus instinct teaches the eagle to nest on the highest crag and the mountain sheep to browse in pastures which only the hardest hunter dare approach. For no better reason apparently to the Mokwiz occupy their barren maces. They simply prefer to live there above any other place. Safety has been urged as a motive for their conduct but it alone is not a sufficient reason for their problem. Their position is safe enough from attack but in the event of a siege their safety would only be temporary. With their scant water supply at a distance and unprotected they could not hold out long in a siege but would soon be compelled either to fight, fly or famish. Again if safety was their only reason for staying they could have left long ago and had nothing to fear as they have been for many years the enemy, the predatory Navajo. But rather than go they have chosen to remain in their old home where they have always lived and will continue to live so long as they are left free to choose. The modern iconoclast and his unreasonable devotion to realism has perhaps stripped them of much old time romance but even with all of that gone enough of fact remains to make them a remarkable people. Instead of seeking to change them this last bit of harmless aboriginal life should be spared and preserved if possible in all of its native purity and simplicity. Chapter 13 Chapter 14 of Arizona Sketches by Joseph A. Monk This LibriVox recording is in the public domain reading by Bologna Times The climate of Arizona as described in the local vernacular is sure fine. The combination of elements which make the climate is unusual and cannot be duplicated elsewhere in the American continent. The air is remarkably pure and dry. Societity indeed is its distinguishing feature that the climate is due to geographical and meteorological conditions cannot be doubted but the effects are unexplainable by any ordinary rules. The region involved not only embraces Arizona but also includes portions of California and Mexico and is commonly known as the Colorado Desert. Yuma at the junction of the Gila and Colorado rivers is approximately its geographical center. The general aspect of the country is low and flat and in the Salton sink the dry lands dips several hundred feet below the level of the ocean only by extreme is such land possible when more water rises in evaporation than falls in precipitation. There are but few such places in the world the deepest one being the Dead Sea which is about thirteen hundred feet lower than the ocean. The Colorado Basin is the dry bed of an ancient sea whose shoreline is yet visible in many places upon the sides of the mountains which surround it. Its floor is composed of clay with deposits of sand and salt. Strong winds sometimes sweep over it and pile up the sand in great dunes. The entire region is utterly bare and desolate yet by the use of water diverted from the Colorado River it is being reclaimed to agriculture. The rainfall is very scant the average annual precipitation at Yuma being less than three inches. The climate is not dry from any lack of surface water as it has the Gila and Colorado rivers the Gulf of California and the broad Pacific ocean to draw from. But the singular fact remains that the country is extremely dry and that it does not rain as in other lands. Neither is the rainfall deficient from any lack of evaporation. Upon the contrary the evaporation is excessive and according to the estimate of major Powell amounts fully to one hundred inches of water per annum. If the vapors arising from evaporation should all be condensed into clouds and converted into rain it would create a rainy season that would last throughout the year. The humidity caused by an abundant rainfall in any low hot country is usually enough to unfit it for human habitation. The combined effect of heat and moisture upon a fertile soil causes an excess of both growing and decaying vegetation that fills the atmosphere with the most obnoxious vapors and disease producing germs. The sultry air is so oppressive that it is more than physical endurance can bear. The particles of vapor which float in the atmosphere absorb and hold the heat until it becomes like a steaming hot blanket that is death to unacclimated life. All of this is changed where sicity prevails. The rapid evaporation and the dry heat desiccates the disease creating germs and makes them innocuous. The effect of heat upon the body is measured by the difference in the actual and sensible temperatures as recorded by the dry and wet bulb thermometers. When both stand nearly together as they are apt to do in a humid atmosphere the heat becomes insufferable. In the dry climate of Arizona such a condition cannot occur. The difference in the two instruments is always great, often as much as 40 degrees. For this reason a temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit at Yuma is less oppressive than 98 degrees Fahrenheit is in New York. A low relative humidity gives comfort and freedom from sunstroke even when the thermometer registers the shade temperature in three figures. A dry warm climate is a stimulant to the cutaneous function. The skin is an important excreting organ that is furnished with a large number of sweat glands which are for the dual purpose of furnishing moisture for cooling the body by evaporation and the elimination of worn out and waste material from the organism. As an organ it is not easily injured by overwork but readily lends its function in an emergency in any effort to relieve other tired or diseased organs of the body. By vicarious action the skin is capable of performing much extra labor without injury to itself and can be harnessed temporarily for the relief of some vital part which has become crippled until its function can be restored. A diseased kidney depends particularly upon the skin for succor more than any other organ. When the kidneys from any cause fail to act, the skin comes to the rescue and throws off impurities which nature intended should go by the renal route. For this reason, diabetes and albuminuria the most stubborn of all kidney diseases are usually benefited by a dry warm climate. The benefit derived is due to an increase of the insensible transpiration rather than to profuse perspiration. The air of Arizona is so dry and evaporation so rapid that an increase in perspiration is scarcely noticeable except when it is confined by impervious clothing. The disagreeable feeling of wet clothes which accompanies profuse perspiration in a damp climate is changed to an agreeable sensation of coolness in a dry one. The atmosphere of Arizona is not only dry but also very electrical so much so, indeed, that at times it becomes almost painful. Whenever the experiment is tried sparks can be produced by friction or the handling of metal, hair, or wool. It affects animals as well as men and literally causes the hair to stand on end. The rider has on various occasions seen a string of horses standing close together at a watering trough drinking so full of electricity that their mains and tails are spread out and floated in the air and the long hairs drawn by magnetic attraction from one animal to the other all down the line in a spontaneous effort to complete a circuit. There are times when the free electricity in the air is so abundant that every object becomes charged with a fluid and it cannot escape fast enough or find a way out by any adequate conductor. The effects of such an excess of electricity is decidedly unpleasant on the nerves and causes annoying irritability and nervousness. The hot sun sometimes blisters the skin and burns the complex to a rich nut brown color but the air always feels soft and balmy and usually blows only in gentle zippers. The air has a pungent fragrance which is peculiar to the desert that is the mingle product of a variety of resinous plants. The weather is uniformly pleasant and the elements are rarely violently disturbed. In the older, settled sections of our country whenever there is any sudden or extreme change in the weather of either heat or cold, wet or dry it is always followed by an increase of sickness and death. The aged and invalid who are sensitive and weak suffer mostly as they feel every change in the weather. This is perhaps no place on earth that can boast of a perfect climate but the country that can show the fewest and mildest extremes approaches nearest to the ideal. The southwest is exceptionally favored in its climatic conditions and is beneficial to the majority of chronic invalids. Atmospheric pressure is greatest near the earth's surface and exerts a controlling influence over the vital functions. Atmospheric pressure is to the body what the governor is to the steam engine or the pendulum to the clock. It regulates vital action ensures safety and lessens the wear and tear of a machinery. Under its soothing influence the number of respirations per minute are diminished, the heart beats decreased in frequency and the tired brain and nerves rested. It is often better than medicine and will sometimes give relief as well. Arizona has a diversity of altitudes and therefore furnishes a variety of climates. The elevations range from about sea level at Yuma to nearly 13,000 feet upon the San Francisco mountains. By making suitable changes in altitude to fit the season it is possible to enjoy perpetual spring. Because Arizona is far south geographically it is only natural to suppose that it is all very hot which is a mistake. In the low valleys of southern Arizona the summers are hot but it is a dry heat which is not oppressive and the winters are delightfully pleasant. In northern Arizona the winters are cold and the summers cool. There is no finer summer climate in the world than is found on the high plateaus and pine top mountains of northern Arizona. Prescott, Williams staff have a charming summer climate while at Yuma, Phoenix and Tucson the winter weather is simply perfect. A mountain residence is not desirable for then nervous people or such as are afflicted with any organic disease. A high altitude is too stimulating for this class of patients and tends to increase nervousness and aggravates organic disease. Such persons should seek a coast climate and a low altitude which is sedative rather than risk the high and dry interior. Any coast climate is better than the mountains for nervous people but the Pacific coast is preferable to any other because of its freedom from electrical storms in every other form of disagreeable meteorological disturbance that tries the nerves. The nervousness that is produced by a high altitude does not as a rule develop suddenly upon the patient. Those of a sensitive nature feel it most and women more than men after making a change from a low to a high altitude sleep may be sound for a time but that soon becomes fitful and unrefreshing. It has been discovered that altitude increases the amount of hemoglobulin and thus enriches the blood and is particularly beneficial to pale then people. It also sharpens the appetite and promotes digestion and assimilation. Persons suffering from rheumatism neuralgia, advanced pulmonary consumption, organic heart disease and all disorders of the brain and nerves should avoid a high altitude. Patients that are afflicted with any of the above mentioned diseases are more comfortable in a low altitude and should choose between the coast of California and the low dry lands of the lower Gila and Colorado rivers according to the season of the year and the quality of climate desired. The diseases which are especially benefited by the climate of Arizona are consumption, bronchitis Qatar and hay fever. Anyone going in search of health who has improved by the change should remain where the improvement took place last by returning home and being again subjected to the former climatic conditions which caused the disease, the improvement be lost and the old disease reestablished with increased severity. Most sick people who are in need of a change live in a humid atmosphere where the winters are extremely cold and the summers uncomfortably hot and to be benefited by a change must seek a climate in which the opposite conditions prevail. The climate of the southwest furnishes just what such invalids require. The sick who need cold or damp weather, if there be any such can be accommodated almost anywhere, but those who want a warm dry climate must go where it can be found. Not every invalid goes in search of health finds a cure as many who start on such a journey are already past help when they leave home. When a case is hopeless the patient should not undertake such a trip but remain quietly at home and die in peace among friends. As already intimated the climate of the Colorado Basin is ideal in winter but becomes very hot in summer. Its low altitude, rainless days, cloudless skies and balmy air form a combination that is unsurpassed and is enjoyed by all either sick or well. The heat of summer does not create sickness but becomes monotonous and tiresome from its steady and long continuance. Many residents of the territory who tire of the heat and can afford the trip take a vacation during the summer months and either go north to the Grand Canyon and the mountains or to the Pacific Coast. Every summer witnesses a hajira of sun-baked people fleeing from the hot desert to the mountains or ocean shore in search of coolness and comfort. Life in the tropics perhaps inclines to indolence and langur particularly if the weather is humid, but in a dry climate like that of Arizona the heat, although sometimes great is never oppressive or debilitating. It has its lazy people like any other country and for the same reason that there are always some who are born tired and never outgrow the tired feeling but Arizona climate is more bracing than innovating. The Adobe House of the Mexican is a peculiar institution of the Southwest. It may be interesting on account of its past history but it is certainly not pretty. It is nothing more than a box of dried mud with its roof, walls, and floor all made of dirt. It is never free from a disagreeable earthy smell which, if mingled with the added odors of stale smoke and filth as is often the case, makes the air simply vile. The house can never be kept tidy because of the dirt which falls from the Adobe unless the walls are plastered and whitewashed which is sometimes done in the better class of houses. If the house is well built it is comfortable enough in pleasant weather but as often as it rains the dirt roof springs a leak and splashes water and mud over everything. If by chance the house stands on low ground and is surrounded by water as sometimes happens after a heavy rain the walls become soaked and dissolved into mud when the house collapses. The Adobe house may have been suited to the wants of a primitive people but in the present age of improvement it is scarcely worth saving except it be as a relic of a vanishing race. In order to escape in a measure the discuffberts of the midday heat the natives either seek the shade in the open air where the breeze blows or what is more common close up tight the Adobe house in the morning and remain indoors until the intense heat from the scorching sun penetrates the thick walls which causes the inmates to move out. In the cool of the evening they visit and transact business and when the hour comes for retiring go to bed on hot made up outdoors where they sleep until morning while the house is left open to cool off during the night. This process is repeated every day during the hot summer months and is endured without complaint. The natives also take advantage of the dry air to operate a novel method of refrigeration. The cloth covered army canteens soaked in water and the handy water jug of the eastern harvest field wrapped in a wet blanket are familiar examples of an ineffectual attempt at refrigeration by evaporation but natural refrigeration finds its best illustration in the arid regions of the southwest by the use of an air filter which is a vessel made of porous pottery a stout canvas bag or a closely woven Indian basket a suitable vessel is selected filled with water and suspended somewhere in mid air in the shade if it is hung in a current of air it is all the better as any movement of the atmosphere facilitates evaporation a slow seepage of water filters through the open pores of the vessel which immediately evaporates the dry air and lowers the temperature the water in the ola soon becomes cold and if properly protected will remain cool during the entire day the dry air also acts as a valuable preservative during the winter when the weather is cool but not freezing if fresh meat is hung out in the open air it will keep sweet a long time a dry crust soon forms upon its surface it automatically seals the meat from the air and keeps it perfectly sweet in the summer it is necessary to dry the meat more quickly to keep it from spoiling it is then made into jerky by cutting it into long thin strips and hanging them up in the sun to dry after it is thoroughly dried it is tied up in bags and used as needed either by eating it dry from the pocket when out on a tramp or if in camp serving it or if it is in the stove even the carcass of a dead animal that is left exposed upon the ground to decompose does not molder away by the usual process of decay but what is left of the body after the hungry buzzers and coyotes have finished their feast dries up into a mummy that lasts for years climate everywhere unquestionably influences life in its evolution but it is not always easy to determine all of its effects in detail Arizona, which is but a comparatively small corner of our country lives several races of men that are as different from each other as nature can make them yet all live in the same climate the Pueblo Indian is in a manner civilized peaceable and industrious he is brave in self defense but never seeks war nor bloodshed quite different is his near neighbor the bloodthirsty Apache who seemed to delight only robbing and killing people cunning and revenge are pronounced traits of his character and the government has found him difficult to conquer or control the Mexican leads a shiftless, thriftless life and seems satisfied merely to exist he has unfortunately inherited more of the baser than the better qualities of his ancestors and to all appearance is destined to further degenerate the American is the last calmer to push civilization and commerce into the remotest corners and as usual, dominates the land as diverse as are all these several races in many respects each one of them furnishes splendid specimens of physical manhood the Indian has always been noted for his fine physique and his large bodied well-muscled and full-chested one advantage which the southwest has over other countries is that he is mild and favorable to an outdoor life which is conducive to health and physical development no single race of men flourish equally well everywhere but each one is affected by his own surroundings and what is true of a race is also true of an individual the pioneer in any country is always an interesting character but he differs in peculiarities according to his environment of mountain, plain or forest occupation also exerts an influence and in time develops distinct types like the trapper, miner, soldier and cowboy that only the graphic pencil of a Remington can accurately portray the eccentricities of character which are sometimes met in men who dwell on the frontier are not always due alone to disposition but are largely the product of the wildlife which they live that inclines them to be restless and even desperate there is no better field for observing and studying the effects of environment upon human life than is furnished by the arid region of the southwest End of Chapter 14 End of Arizona sketches by Joseph A. Monk


Are you joking? No, I'm serious. South African Airways is actually sponsoring this. Even the whole food on this table is sponsored by South African Airways. Wow. Fly to Ghana is sponsored by South African Airways. Where are you going to stay is sponsored by Wadamaya. Your car is sponsored by Wadamaya. You. Wow.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's everything. Just let me know the day that you want to fly.   Where did you find a friend like this? Everything is sorted. Just let me know. You know, I was, I kept on asking you the rest of the time. No, wait, man, no, wait. No, you kept doing it. No, we were speaking about this. I was like, so, where do you keep asking? I was even checking for how much flight time. God, I'm so serious. He literally checked. I was checking. I feel like you're joking. No, I'm joking. For the camera, I'm already joking. How are you all doing? Have you missed me? No, I don't think you've missed me. I have actually missed you all, and I want you all to do this for me. Just clap your hands for me, yeah. I think you've been enjoying the videos from Zimbabwe. It's been an awesome journey, five weeks in Zimbabwe. We came here just to spend two weeks, but we ended up spending five weeks. Today is my last night in Zimbabwe. I don't know, should I cry? No, but I need to be happy because I went to every corner of this country. You'll never get this view anywhere in this world. Let me tell you something. Zimbabwe is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. I mean, the several wonder of the world, one of them is here. So, as a Zimbabwean, you need to be proud. As an African, you need to be super proud of Zimbabwe. I'm so unfortunate that today is actually our last day in Zimbabwe. I mean, our last night in this country, which means that everything that has a beginning has an end. I want to tell you something. There is absolutely nothing in this world that belongs to you. So, whatever you're doing, make sure you have a pure heart, do it right, work hard, and nature will back you up.  Now, come on, don't forget that I'm also called Pastor Tetema. But anyway, you know what I'm doing today? Tony Megabush, my very good friend. We started this channel together. Tony Megabush. Zimbabwe. Tony. Zimbabwe. Me and Tony, I need to give him the credit that when I decided to start a YouTube channel, he was the first guy that I ever met. He was the first guy that I filmed my first official video with. And I think we didn't do just one video. We did so many videos to the extent that I wanted to build a team. When I decided to build a team because I didn't have money to buy a camera. I didn't have money to record videos and stuff. And I had to go and employ videographers and all of that, but we couldn't pay them. So, I didn't the day everyone left, including Tony Megabush. And I remained the only man standing because I had a vision. But we've still been friends since 2013 to now. I saw myself. You wanted to pass this time. You wanted to pass. What? You wanted to pass. And being in Zimbabwe, he drove me everywhere I went to. He took care of me together with the wife.  And I just want to do something. I've been having a conversation with them and I feel like the wife is Jamaican. And I think the wife will feel more African when she finds herself in Ghana. So you know how we do it. We are going to have a dinner tonight. And that dinner, I'm sponsoring their trip from Zimbabwe to Ghana and Ghana back to Zimbabwe. And at the same time, the accommodation, food, transportation in Ghana, I'm taking care of everything. But I'm doing this video together with South African Airways. When I told them that I did it like, you know what? Maya, we love your work from afar. This is our first time to take the mantle to support you in your vision. My name is Gloria Wilkinson Mensa, Country Manager for South African Airways. South African Airways is happy to collaborate with Maya to fly his friends from Harari into Accra, which is also one of the destinations that South African Airways flies to. SAA is counting down to its first year anniversary since its return to the skies in September last year. South African Airways is offering up to 20% discount in economy first for all SAA-operated flights between Accra and Johannesburg. This is SAA's way of giving back to the market for going the distance with your favorite airline. South African Airways is located on the first floor of the Nestor Square. You can book your flights on www.flySA.com or call 0302 7836 76 or WhatsApp 0244 344583. South African Airways welcomes you on board. A big round of applause to South African Airways. So Tony is out there, come along with me. He has no idea that this is what I'm planning. So I just hope it goes well. Tony don't like surprises, I know that. So yeah, come along and let's go and have some fun, bro. Thank you. I think I'm always late. And I believe that Tony is mad at me, man. Tony! Where's your wife? So we're picking her up, right?  All right. We've been waiting for you for ages. Yeah, welcome to this life. His life, huh? The thought and the... Life of a medical doctor, man. It's time for us to go and eat. So yeah, we go together just to go and eat, right? Let's go. What time is it? It's 9.16, yeah. And I think we're gonna be the last people to eat in here, I guess. So welcome to Chop Chop. We are going to chop. We're going to chop. You know what, chop chop? Chop has so many meanings, man. What are you thinking about? What are you thinking about? Boots. Boots? No. Welcome to Chop Chop, thanks for coming, Mr. Wanda. How are things, Mr. Wanda? How are you? I'm good, how are you? Oh, okay. What's your name, man? Maya. Yes, nice job. Nice job. Nice to meet you, man. I've seen your videos, I think. Thank you. Ah, okay. It's okay. You know why I brought both of you in here? You see, the last time that Tony came to receive me, you came along, right?  I spoke to her, but I didn't go into details. What's going on? Nothing's going on, you're good. What's going on? Nothing's going on. What does that mean? It's like nothing's going on. Oh, wow. But there's nothing happening. Yeah, but...  I should stop saying it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Please don't say it. I shouldn't... Oh, man, I used to love it so much. And then there's this Jamaican guys that came to Ghana and then all the time I was just saying it. And then they translated the actual meaning to me. Since then... Oh, I think I saw that video. Since then, I'm like, no more boomerclap. It's so hard to prevent that word, by the way. It's a very, very good word. I want to say thank you so much for everything. It's been 20... Almost 35 days in Zimbabwe. Yeah, man, 35. And I believe that both of you fought because of me. Sometimes. From Ghana, we're limited time. But I understand. I don't know how many years I'll spend before seeing him again. And I knew you weren't here to stay. Exactly. So, pardon him. Yeah, I'm here to say I'm sorry. And I think when I leave today, tomorrow, probably everything is going to be alright then. Yeah. We knew the house, bro. They'll be sent to you, man. We knew... Something new. Come on. I never met you in China, though. We went once. Once, where? I think you guys were working on a video for... What? He was trying to come up with ideas. You came to the apartment. Then we also met on the bus once. But you never spoke. Wow. Yeah, you probably just spoke. He just told me about you. Mmm, how did you put a few meat? Meat in China. In China? We all know you like China. I mean, China is huge, man. So... Okay, so we're from the same church. Oh! So when I got to China, I was looking for a church I couldn't find one for a while. Then someone at my school said they knew someone who was to my church. But she had to ask for his number first because apparently he was dating someone else at the time. So she couldn't get that. So she couldn't just give me the number, so I waited. She's the main snager. No, I'm not. They broke up. But anyway, then I got the number and then he made the bus stop. And then a company came to church. It's Gijia. Gijia. Remember Gijia and the magic, eh? Man, he just bought memories, man. Yeah, Gijia. So we choose you in SMC. No, CMU. CMU. That was the best, the best one. Yeah. China's the best one. China Medical University in Xinjiang. The best. I'm putting myself into trouble. Shout out to all SMC guys, man. Especially the DJs, you know. The medical doctors. You know, like my brother was sick recently and I took my brother to the hospital. Yeah. The one I got there, the doctor there was from SMC.  And I'm like, I'm taking my brother home. I was just joking, but you know, back in China, you see how the SMC guys were, the DJs and the clubs and stuff like that. Let's see, let me rub my vessel. Let's go. Shout out to DJ Mocha. He made our days. Oh, yeah. And shout out to the SMC doctors who are doing well, OK? And what is DJ Mocha doing? I don't know what time it was in China or something. Wow. Yeah. OK. Anyway, 20. And we've known each other since 2013. In 2013, yeah. I mean, you saw the struggle of creating YouTube videos those days, man. Yeah, definitely. Man, it's work. It's work and I actually... I think people don't see how much work actually goes into this because, you know, with you coming here, it just took me back to those days. But it's now like on a bigger stage that you're working with. Yeah. So, yeah, I have to say I'm strong. Because we actually started the YouTube channel together. Then somewhere along the way, I was just like, you know what? And I think the worst thing were people. I think that's what made me give up. Because people, brah, I remember people used to laugh at us. Our classmates used to look like fools. Thank you. Then at some point, I was just like, you know what? Let me beg and just stay back. But you've done well, man. You've done well. What I did was I made those negative comments became my source of motivation, you know? Especially when you go to class and everyone is laughing at you just because of a video that you did. I can say some names. I can say some names. Feel free. I mean... All right. It's not Olam. It's not Olam. Yeah, but I mean... Yo, those days, bro, it was tough. That's why I keep on telling people that we don't know how I started. No, they don't. And the other thing is people just see you as an annoying village boy and probably playing in videos. But they actually don't know how serious and how much of a hard worker you are. You know, this guy used to stay up late studying. No, like, for his proper aeronautical. And then it's so funny the way he actually learned how to speak Chinese fluently. That's when I knew that this guy was actually... Yeah, he always tells me that story. He's such a hard worker. How may we... Bro, it's like, you don't want to give me my food, but what should I do? That's like the last lesson, man.  We went to church together. Yeah. My friend said we were in a group of friends for some time. And then he made a move. He didn't know it just happened. It just happened. Yeah, naturally. Over time. Wow. And that's how I found love in China. Finally. Yeah. But now he business in bubble. Yeah. It sounds like it's in bubble. It's complicated. Complicated? But on a personal level, it's fine. And how about being a Jamaican in here when you tell people you're from Jamaica? You know what? I look the same. Yeah, we're all the same. Exactly. So when someone sees me, they assume I'm Zimbabwean. And then they just start speaking to me in China. And when I respond in English or I speak in English, they assume I'm being... What's the word? Snobbish. Like snobbish. And I have to explain, no, really, I'm learning Shona. I'm not Zimbabwean. Oh. Yeah. You tell them you're Jamaican. I'm Jamaican. And they start saying, oh, really? Bubble. We're from bubble. Okay, so... Some people even say like, we're Kunyepa. Like, we're Kunyepa. Like, you're lying. Like, no, I'm serious. Then they'll say it. Most people then say, oh, what's going on? That's what everyone knows. Yeah, everyone knows what's going on. What's going on? What's going on? But you should visit us in Ghana, though. Yeah. You don't want to... What do you plan on coming to Ghana? Have you ever thought of going to Ghana? Of course. Many times. Is that a dream, though? I actually thought of going to Ghana before I was Zimbabwean. Sorry, bro. Sorry. Sorry, bro. Sorry, bro. No, because of the background, you know, like, we're ancestors from Ghana and Nigeria. You refuse Nigeria, but it's true. And I worked with Nigeria. But most Jamaicans, I can't lose. And partly Nigeria. So, growing up, my mummies, to take me to these things, they're called like Fui Sinting.  You've always wanted to go to Ghana. And growing up, my mummies would always wear African prints and stuff. So, I always wanted to see West Africa. Not knowing it. Has not taken you to West Africa? No. I've only been to this side. Have you not been to Ghana? Who me? I've been to Togo, though. How can you be in Togo without going to Ghana? No, it was... You used a flight? Yeah, it was just a flight. I was just passing through Argentina. I was just connecting. So, that's the... That's not going to Togo. Yeah, I know. But at least I got to see a nice place. You know, it's actually look nice. No, one day, we'll make a plan for that. One day? Yeah, one of these days.  Are you for real, man? Huh? Are you for real? It's jokey. How can I joke, bro? So, three of you are coming along with me to Ghana. The ticket is already ready. Just let me know the dates that you want to fly. Are you joking? No, I'm serious. South African Airways is actually sponsoring this. Even the whole food on this table is sponsored by South African Airways. Wow. Fly to Ghana is sponsored by South African Airways. Where are you going to stay? It's sponsored by Wadamaya. Your car is sponsored by Wadamaya. You!  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's everything. Just let me know the date that you want to fly.  Everything is sorted. Just let me know. You know, I was... I kept on asking you all the questions. Wait, man. No, wait. We're speaking about... At that time, I was like... So, where do you keep asking? I was even checking for how much flights are to Ghana. I'm so serious. He literally checked. I was checking how much is it because he was asking how about accommodation. And I said, okay, I kind of know that Maya will sort me out there. But the flights... Yeah. So your flight, everything is sponsored, bro. Ah, come on. Throw a few.  No, I'm not joking. I'm not joking. No! See, um... You see... Everything is sorted. Everything is sorted. But why are you surprising me like this? First, you surprise me. I'm not surprised. This is not a surprise. I'm supposed to do more than this, man. No, you surprise me with your visit. The parcels, the big parcels. Now it's about to leave. You have to leave me the other time. Yeah, so just let me know. That's what I was asking you. When do you have time? Can you have two weeks or one week so that I can confirm the ticket, the range? Oh, okay. Now you get it. Wow. So all this conversation, I was just trying to figure it out. No, thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Wow. I'm mind-blowing. I'm beyond like... And then I get the camera there. I can't, I don't even know how to do it. Ah, no, not at all. You too, man. Yeah, my... This is true, it's just for the camera. Come on. Joltz, right? Is he serious? Yeah. You can ask him. The first day we go here, that was what we planned. So today... Are you joking? Come on. You dancing has done too much. So just let me know how many days you want to spend in Ghana. Shout out to my favourites. Ghana, Twitter... Kali J. Kali J and my also the sportscaster, Sadiq. Sadiq Adams. Sadiq Adams, yeah, I have... No, Sadiq Adams. I follow Kali J and Sadiq Adams. Wow. Can I also shout out someone? I told you. You didn't know I'm going to shout out. Who? Hmm? Who? Who? What do you think? N'na kufuwado. That guy from that Yawa skit. They like them. Yawa skit is from Nigeria. Oh, it's from Nigeria. You see, if you keep refusing, if you keep refusing, we're mixed, it's Ghana and Nigeria. Kali skit. My fiancé actually want to see both of you because I've been talking to him. Yo, I can't wait. I can't wait. This is actually going to be in Ghana. Okay. The time that you guys decide. Okay. So that she'll also decide that all of us will be together. Next time, the table will be four. No, five, eh? Hey, I need to act. No, you need to be sexy, eh? Oh, come on. I'm going away. I really don't know how to act. So like, I was not expecting you to act, bro. I just wanted you to do it. You know, I'm so taken aback, man. I can't believe it. It's just like the way I saw you at the airport. I was like, this guy has to be playing. This guy has to be playing. I love playing. I love playing, man. So let me know. If you confirm the date, you stay in my house, not my house, my apartment, yeah. That million dollar house. Ah, no. Million dollar house. Yeah. Tony, my garbage. Ghana, man. Tony, lala. My garbage, son. But Tony, I just want to say thank you so much for everything. I really appreciate your time.  And when you come to Ghana, it's like two weeks, I'm not doing anything. Two weeks, I'm not doing anything. Just making sure you enjoy your time in Ghana. Oh. Oh, the place that you want to go to. I mean, the whole country. We move around the whole country. Sleeping in the best resort in the country. Everything is sorted, man. I want to make sure you enjoy Ghana. No, no. I'll definitely come through West Africa. Watch out for this Zimbabwe village boy. I'm not a village boy. City boy. Watch out for this Zimbabwe city boy. I'm coming to see you, my relative. Yeah, you need to go to Cape Coast though. I need to take you to Cape Coast. Where they took the incestuous ride. Exactly, the Cape Coast Castle. That's the first place you need to go. Visit our ancestors. I can't thank you enough for that. Your presence alone was like... It was a dream come true for me. Yeah, it was very exciting. I was always touched. And the funny thing is... You always used to go to these other countries. Never mentioned Zimbabwe. The only thing you would mention is like, sometimes I'm watching this video and they're like, ah, you know, I've got my friend. I said, win another Zimbabwe in comments. And then they say, I'm from Zimbabwe. Then I'm like, no, I've got my friend called Tony from Zimbabwe who I used to, you know, but ah, yeah. Man, it's been a pleasure. This past few weeks. Yeah, mega wish. I'll be back, man. This place is now home. And I just wanted you to also comment. I told you, when was yesterday? I said Zimbabwe is your third home. Number one? Where's the Ghana? Ghana. Kenya. Kenya. Then Zimbabwe. Then the rest of Africa you can have with my... But those three places are home. Yeah. All right. So yeah, I mean, thank you so much, South African Airways, for making this possible.


Good morning and how are you doing? My name is Karen Jusser and this right here is Hape Hop Thursday. Now, Barry was here with a previous interview and yes, young people are doing great things and especially for the gospel industry. I hope he doesn't suave out of it. Okay, okay, I'm coming in with a new interview. Okay, I have a new guy, call him new, but he's not so new in the music industry, but he is upcoming poli poli too and I'll come through Raj's Gotshu on that music deck, and speaking of the social media pages, maze leo on to sample your comments. Of course, we've asked you who is your favorite Kenyan rapper. I'll tell you of mine in just a few minutes. Now, let me sample your comments. Right Mady Wo Wo, okay. Anasama, King Junior representing Kali Sana Freestyle apo moja wa zemo big shout to KJ. Shout out to you KJ. I'm a James and I'm a Yulize. Yule eh, lapam kali alien dawa api hez jasama rapa nimlapa the lady who did a song with Oji. Yo! I think we all know what you're talking about, but chiza chini, I'm a James because hachitaki kukujiwa. Yes, yes. Anongilakusum, Supaes, baka na ambiwa um Supaes. Supaes, badu uko. Of course, pala twitayake na kuangalit, so you know where to find her, pala twitay. Rico's Lei, anasama Petra, mwoto wa kuote ambale. And then, rate madiwa anasama Monski, Sylvia Saru. Okay, she's coming in a bit. And then, Craig Gadi, anasama Uyokijana, Wai Choka Anatesa. Okay, all right. Trim P. Steve, anasama STL, alafu kuna Gemini. Gemini anasama Saru, the queen, then I can get Rico's contact on 808Cypher. You have to check out his Instagram page mtu miye DM pale. Of course, anasama umpitei kwa DM, atengia kwa DM na atasampole. And I hope to see you soon at the 808 Studios. Then we have Keith Arian. Anasama hello, I'm Arian from Embu nama Panda Fena. Alafu, why in the morning? Good day. Good day to you, Keith. Alafu, selfie boy. Anasama play for me moja ya K. Jones. Siji kama rajizana skiza pia. K. Jones moji na takikana apoyo yote tu. Pita Adi Spea anasama, my female rapper is Kani Kish, wame toa audio and Breake Onesma's Kiki Staff Mikali. Kiki, Kiki, is it the Kiki Konga we had last time? Let us know Pita Adi toambia kama ni Kiki Kong. Basil Kelvin Saru na upcoming fulani anaito na Shish baby sorry, from Mombasa. It's Basil Kelvin from V01. Okay, voy niko lokt. Thank you so much for tuning in. Kama na joa kaweida, kama kawa kama dawa. Facebook comments ni ye nyo. It's all about you guys and you want to know what do you think? What's on your mind? What are you feeling? This is Pop Thursday 1 in the morning. My name is Karen Justin. You can find me on all social media platforms as Karen Kan. Now, let me get right into the interview. What's up, what's good? Hey, guys. I'm good, I'm good. What's up? Is this your second media tour? I've done a couple of shows. This is like my fifth. Your fifth? And how is it like the music industry so far? It's good. The hip-hop industry in Kenya is really growing and I'm glad to be part of the growth. We're just wrapping the 254 hip-hop to the world. Are there things that you expected during your upcoming that have not yet figured or some of them have been accomplished and you're so happy about it? It's quite hard. You expect you're going to make a dope song and it becomes a hit song but you realize the process is pretty hard. You really have to push your craft each and every day. Every opportunity you get like this one.  So in case nobody knows you, nobody by this guy is watching you from Y2F4, they're wondering who is Drew Weezy. Drew Weezy is a young upcoming artist. Tell us more about yourself. My name is Drew Weezy. I've been doing this thing since way, way back in 2012. Right now I'm just trying to really go hard in this industry. By go hard what exactly do you mean? Projects after projects. In the past I've been doing projects and relaxed for a while but right now I'm just trying to back to back. Consistency everything. Every single day man say I can relax. So you represent NUX? NUX practice in the building. But you're not staying there right now. You're staying in the 237. How is it like for you creating your content or creating your music? Do you have challenges moving from one studio to the other or you have one specific guy who you can just go to and magic happens? Yeah, I used to do tracks back in NUX Vegas studios but right now at least I got someone who understands my thing, my style. Mr. Hito Hrikobit working with him. He's pretty dope man. Love the extra cipher coming. You wrap us up out there and submit your projects to him. Kupiwata wu me kwa kwa yaw studio era waita kwa kwa kona pwa maili kwa kona. I've been in there too man and Shara Tusa Rupia she's dope and I respect her a lot. So before I come to your track Bodid and your other one I want to know Riko as a producer and other producer. Of course you told me you picked one guy to work with him. So far so good. Play Kenyan music has been doing well. We've gotten so many requests especially from Kenyan audience suggesting for Kenyan artists do you think that producers are doing a good job when it comes to flying the Kenyan music industry? Producers are doing a good job every single day you see them laying the instrumentos on internet. It's up to the artists to really if you really want to do this thing and they just have to chase it Producers haven't been sleeping so the artists will also just go hard opportunities are out there sometimes it's as the artists will sleep a lot but producers are really working hard daily. Okay so Dhruvizi Ume Sema there are things you expected when you began this musical journey but then again you expected to put up a song but it didn't work well or it didn't reach out to a massive audience that you targeted I'm thinking the song that you're talking about is Kirikat maybe you say that has so many views it was your first jam on YouTube right? Ya ya that was my first jam. I was just an upcoming I was trying to do anything to put my name out there and you know at that age you do anything I think I'm the pioneer of this you see what gangiton rappers mostly rap about but I did it kind of and classy in hip-hop so it wasn't really about me making it I was just doing what I love at that time I was feeling that vibe I just do what I had to do unfortunately it kind of blew up it did because you have so many views it blew up and it was crazy man their attention was just dope so why are you happy about the results that you got or did it leave you with something like a void that you have to keep fulfilling that void or keep doing more work Ya I didn't really want to take that part change strategy Ya when I was doing that track I didn't really want to take that part because I didn't want people to specify me as a rapper doing that kind of music You want to be that classy Ya ya you know Rapper Classiest rapper Okay I like that so let's talk about Classi Bodeed It's a nice jam I love the beats Bodeed Bodeed What about Bodeed do you like about this song What do you like about Bodeed Ya know Bodeed it's all about me I'm putting my life story out there I'm trying to tell people I can do this man if people give me the support I can represent you like we can be doing these things with people like Kate Jones Nastisi out there Druiz is a rapper you should watch out Bodeed it's all about Ya this is where I've come from and this is where I'm going people should pay more attention So Bodeed are you trying to tell us that I'm Bodeed like I am the full man I am what you need to get this industry going Ya it's like Bodeed it's all about I'm the dopest up and coming rapper The rest of ya you can just queue right after me behind me like I hope Jones is watching Jones is my boy man He is my boy Well okay need to introduce me after this probably I can launch dates I don't mind and then interview after that Calligraph Jones we've been looking for you kindly kindly kindly people are always here on our social media comments saying calligraph calligraph calligraph but we are yet to find a specific content to bring him in So I want to know from you because today our discussion is all about female rappers and you've seen so many female rappers in the Kenyan music industry but you always remember a few people especially from 2000 from 90 no 2000 I think that's when I started singing STL if my memory serves me right STL and Modoni the Drama Queen So who is currently not because she is in the studio or anything but Saru I respect her so much she goes out I want you to say this don't mention Saru Kenyan rapper the one I feel like is the goat that has to be ecstatic ecstatic is dope man she is so dope man of course Petra too when it comes to women in the rap game there's so many things that affect them for you they always try to compare men and women in rap so you'll find that the man or the gent in the rap game has his own hassle going so easy that is you don't have kids to take care of you don't have clothes to wash you don't have to think about so many things in the household but for the woman as soon as she gives birth you sort of come crumbling down and you don't see her in the game anymore no time for excuses can we just give birth the other day and she's still doing her thing I think a lot of people just give too many excuses a lot of female rappers when they see the game really going their way there's no time for excuses you can give birth and still deliver deliver some birth the next day after you just give birth it's all about how you manage your time manzai no time for excuses give birth give a lot of hits too so this month is the month for women and we mark international women's day during this month of March so it means March 4th so what do you think is the future of female Kenyan rappers it's bright it's really bright man I've been seeing a lot of projects lately on YouTube upcoming Kenyan female rappers the future is really bright for women and with people like Saaru Silverstone bars I think this industry is really going places it's gonna be dope I'm glad you mentioned that there's a female artist who came over sometime back last year and she talked of how producers or whoever it is an influencer could use her in terms of trying to put her somewhere in the game what advice would you give to young upcoming female rappers who are not willing to show their bodies and not willing to go all out and turn to be immoral instead of moral for them to portray how do they go ahead and portray their moral, culture beliefs in the rap industry in Kenya Ya at the end of the day man just stick to it when your time comes probably God will open the door just keep just keep believing in yourself you don't really have to show your body you just kutu God at the same time you don't have to show anything you don't have to show nothing your talent will take you there just maintain your values just respect yourself and people will always buy and support if your staff is dope it will just push a lot of people just showing their body and their staff in dope and they make you moves they make you moves Miss Elliott is still here making a lot of money after even her not showing her titties or anything anyway that's up to you to judge do you feel like going all out or maintain some morality going on so how many tracks do you have so far or rather let me ask you this one which song do you want to perform for us today or which song do you want the audience to listen to today my latest track bodied right now on YouTube bodied Rajuza you got bodied with you you also bodied okay so before you play bodied I want to give you a chance and you get to talk to your fans and your new fans who sort of like you or may like you after you perform for us your bodied song yeah how are you going to reach you can we get to your DM yeah you can get on my DM anytime please man yo on social media it's Druiz D-R-E-W-W-I-W-Z-Y F-B-T-T-I-G YouTube man say and subscribe to my YouTube channel some dope stuff are coming every single day man to everybody who has been supporting me thank you I'm going to be dropping some dope tracks Max Vegas farm my Kika farm my beautiful lady oh you have a big yeah of course every gig got a beautiful wow guy so yo Druiz everywhere future plans any more music please collaborations sorrow calligraph aha ok ok I look forward to seeing your work and hopefully I'll convince 808 Mr 808 to play me your previous works the ones that you've not brought on YouTube or you've been here on Y-2-5-4 and then guys I'll let you know what it's all about anyway for now let's listen into bodied keep tuning into Y-2-5-4 I'm coming in


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Hey friends today, I am hanging out at Universal Studios Orlando to celebrate Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras Today is the actual day It is Mardi Gras time and we've been celebrating all the different festivities for the past two weeks But not on the actual day.   I know the 190 octane is like the strongest drink But they have a lot of other selections and it's nice to see because some people like really stand by these They absolutely love this stand The 190 and that's the one our top seller with our strongest drink grain alcohol with OJ and orange punch and then you got the cat 5 hurricane eye candy strawberry peanut colada And then the margarita for the serious margarita drinkers Dome with a mixture of eye candy and cat 5. Look at that. Bada bing Look at this beautiful drink.  Look at it out there. Blue skies and I love it Now I think it's time. We're gonna head into Universal Studios I really enjoyed my Fat Tuesday daiquiri though But there is a lot of good Mardi Gras experiences waiting for us just inside the park So we might as well just head on in now. I Can actually hear the music as we're walking in I Like how I'm walking along with the music And it also looks like it's a little bit busy over there it is a Tuesday So you would think the crowds would be a little bit softer But it's Fat Tuesday and because of that the park is actually open later than it normally would be Universal has been closing at five o'clock, but today it's open until seven, which is awesome Luckily I've got a friend to hang out with today because Mardi Gras is better with friends I mean everyone knows that and Who better to have than miss new Orleans herself Jackie super Look at you. You actually blend in with the float perfectly Very fancy Other than food and drink another thing that goes hand-in-hand with Mardi Gras is live music And they have a lot of cool live music offerings here this year Look at everyone they're so happy dancing I Like the dancing of course we're also gonna be getting some beads I had at least like two or three brought with me today But I plan on getting a little bit more because they're tossing them out all over the place.  I'm ready Champion happy Mardi Gras.   I got a hat on Look at this Gator though. He's definitely got a lot of beads Man, I miss actually riding these floats and throwing beads out to people. Oh, I wish that happens again soon. I Think I'm just gonna keep the bead on my hat I think it's a good spot for it and that way it doesn't wait on my neck a little bit Let's see. Can he do this? Right on the hat. Let's see if he can get it. Oh, I Think I'll hop on over to the crepe company because they're doing a special Mardi Gras crepe and I think that would be fun. I love crepes and I love Mardi Gras So the best of both worlds Here is the Mardi Gras crepe. It's the creme brulee Red wine poached pear vanilla pastry cream toasted almonds caramel and crispy sugar topping That sounds amazing. Doesn't it and look they're making up the crepes right in there Very fancy Look at that. He's rolling up my crepe as we speak fancy, I Love it. I Think it's super cool that they actually make the crepes to order in there Like they're actually just grilling them up and then stuffing them right in front of you Isn't that the coolest look at that This looks so amazing the only thing I'm a little a little concerned about is the red wine pears But I'm sure they're gonna be delicious. So we're just gonna dive in I'm probably gonna make a mess here, but That is so good. Wow So you can see the pears in there. They're kind of soaking in red wine. It's really really awesome, isn't it? I Think eventually you got to pull the crepe out and start eating it from the bottom So that's what I'm doing, but it is very hard to eat especially while you're holding a camera doing it one-handed I don't suggest doing either of those Now that I had my sweet crepe which was actually phenomenal I think I'm gonna hop on over to Canada right here and get myself some short ribbed poutine I think that sounds amazing. Doesn't it? This looks so amazing. Look at that. I like how they have the little Canada flag right on there Oh, I almost lost my fork But I love short rib and I love french fries. So this is a perfect combination The short ribbed fries were absolutely amazing. I love the actual short rib That was like probably the best part the french fries were I mean, they're french fries, but that was really good Now I think we're gonna get a ride in and since we're over here by ET I think we're gonna go ride ET. I love ET Earlier today. I actually got my universal Orlando annual pass holder magnet and I thought about you know keeping it But I have a lot of magnets on my car So I want to actually leave it in the park and I think I'm gonna put it right back here and either somebody Comes and picks it up or it just stays there regardless. It looks good. It looks like it's a part of this Now it is time for ET. Is that 75 minutes? 75 minute wait. Oh, okay. Well, we're yeah, we're going this way. Thank you Thank God we got the express pass 75 minutes. It does look pretty long though.  It's gone. So I bet you it's either found itself a new home Or like I said, maybe a team member just picked it up and tossed it, but oh well Might as well keep the celebrating going on. We're gonna head on over to the Simpsons area You notice they're still playing the Mardi Gras music in Springfield, which I think is awesome And maybe grab ourselves a duff beer Right in good old moes Drink orders only. Oh, I see you This is definitely the best place to get a beer. Don't you agree fancy pants? Fancy pants Cheers! Happy Mardi Gras! Happy Mardi Gras on Springfield! I love duff beer. It's really actually very delicious and it's brewed exclusively for Universal Orlando And they actually have an October fest that's served like during the Halloween season. That's phenomenal But either way, I do just like to get a duff light. Very good. Keeping it classy. Keeping it classy at moes Now we need to continue along on our Fat Tuesday celebration I like how when we come out of moes, it just immediately turns Mardi Gras It is such a beautiful night. Look at this view Holy moly This is what I love about Universal Studios One of the stands that I really wanted to try last time we were here for Mardi Gras was the Cuba stand Because they had a Cuban coffee and I love coffee and I think it's pretty strong So I think I'm gonna get one of those to actually get to go with maybe a beer. A beer and a coffee sounds perfect Right here the Cuban coffee $3.49 but we do have this little fancy lanyard. So we'll use that to actually get it. I Decided on getting the Cuban coffee like I said, but I bought this with my own money because it was $3 and instead of Using my punch. I bought my Bacardi with my punch because that's $8. So it makes sense to get it. So we got the Bacardi 8 and it's eight years old and Salute. Fancy They say, delicioso, delicioso. Good, very good. Oh I did good So the Cuban coffee I've had espresso before in the past, but this is like way different because what's inside of it? Vasito Cafecito, I don't know, but yeah, it's very strong when you take a sip I felt it actually like kind of rushed through my face and I liked it a lot very very good Look how amazingly bright the floats are actually at night though That's so magical isn't it and it's right outside fast in the furious So it kind of fits in perfectly with the light scheming like this is literally a perfect location for this float We have to move along because hopefully the jambalaya stand is still open We have like about I think 23 minutes before the park closes, but I definitely need to get jambalaya in me It's my favorite thing to eat during Mardi Gras It's still a very festive atmosphere though in here You see a lot of people really dressed up for Mardi Gras this year, and that's awesome. I like seeing people being in their festive spirits Unfortunately, it looks like all of the boots actually closed at 6 30 So they're gonna be able to get that jambalaya, but I'll be back. I've already had it once and I'll probably have jambalaya tomorrow. Honestly, I'm being upfront. I love jambalaya. So we're just gonna move about our day One thing I really missed about Mardi Gras this year was not being able to throw beads out to people So luckily I got a couple beads that I can spare and I got a friend who's willing to catch them Be tossing One more here we go You want some beads you want some I think he wants the beads everybody I think he wants them. Oh Look at him.  So they have to be celebrating a little bit I mean, it's a perfect day for this because it's their day a Lot of people are actually out on city walk celebrating as you can see this one stand right here Is actually using the Mardi Gras menu of all the different drinks from the stands inside the park And you can use your lanyard on it So they have like from Belgium and the Bahamas and even the king cake milk punch Maybe I might get that but it's so fun to see everyone actually out enjoying fat Tuesdays on city walk And it looks like it's it's a fun atmosphere. I Think I'm gonna get the king cake milk punch. I had that last time it was delicious And I think Jackie's going with the goomba smash Goomba Mind to have like Super Mario Brothers Yeah Goomba Now that we actually got our drinks were able to sit down take our mask off And it's really cool because it's not really cool down But they have the actual patio heaters on and that is so amazing because I just like the ambience I like I like feeling warm when I don't need to be warm Look at that isn't that beautiful? Oh, and they're playing the live music over there, too I can hear it and this is the king cake punch and that's Jackie's goomba Goomba punch. This looks like it's a creamy drink, but it's not it is very delicious and very Bourbon-y like you can taste a lot of bourbon and there's always it looks like a creamy drink, but it's not it's not oh You you're good you Cheers I Can't think of a better way to actually celebrate fat Tuesday In fact, I don't think I've ever really celebrated fat Tuesday the way that I showed up and Honestly when you think about the idea about it what we want to give up and Basically what we're doing is basically just going all at it now. I have to tell you I really didn't decide to give up anything, but I still wanted to partake in the festivities of going all in I'm happy that we actually stopped the fat Tuesdays on the way in because look at the line now That is pretty intense, but of course it's fat Tuesday, so people want to get that actual drink Thank you Now we're gonna go up to the actual city walk promadon See if that Tuesdays is open up there and also the actual Paddle-Brians bar there because that was all decked out for New Orleans It's so awesome to see that this is actually open normally. It's not open on Tuesdays go figure that but today It is fat Tuesday, so we are open and look at they even have some cool lights on the ground here And they have a bigger selection than the actual quick service stand that we went to when we first walked in so I'm excited to see what they Have and I'm definitely getting something different You can see this fat Tuesday has a lot more drinks to offer They've got the electric lemonade the Mardi Gras mass the amaretto pineapple the peach Bellini So many different actual amazing drinks, and they got a lot more going very fancy There are a lot of people waiting to actually get a drink fat Tuesday is a popular thing on fat Tuesday Who would have known so I think we're gonna explore other options We've already had our daiquiri for the day and yeah, we're just gonna enjoy the rest of city walk for a little bit Maybe we'll actually jump into NBC grill and get something to eat I always like the food in here, and I also like the beer And it's just a fun atmosphere, and we might as well just go out. It's still Mardi Gras happening. I Always love coming to NBC grill because they always have good beer and also the burgers are pretty decent So today I decided to get the smokehouse burger and that comes with the pork and the brisket the burger and I got half and half fries and tots. I'm so excited definitely needed a good meal today All we had is little snacks. I had the fries and the crepe, but I really wanted a full meal Look at this food Look at that's a club sandwich. Oh, and then the smokehouse is here. Look at this fanciness This is gonna be a good burger. I'm very excited for it. Oh boy This is absolutely amazing I love it I love the mixture between the brisket on there and the burger patty This is actually one of the best burgers. I've had at Universal Studios. Wow. I am shocked. I absolutely love it though That burger at NBC was absolutely amazing, but there's one more thing we need to do before we leave and it's tradition Look at all the beads on this tree When we actually first came for the first night of Mardi Gras It was just the bare minimum beads on this tree and now it is full to the brim So we got to actually join in tradition Yeah