50 CAMP FIRE REMINISCENCES 
tors—was not this the land of the puma, the bob- 
cat, and the coyote? We found, however, plenty 
of corncobs, buried beneath several inches of dust 
which had accumulated on the floor. 
This is about as far north as these ruins occur 
and they are architecturally very inferior to those 
seen in the canyons of the Rio Grande and Rio 
Colorado, where houses of two or three stories, 
built of partially dressed stone, may be seen, and 
in some places well-built towers. The stones in all 
cases are laid up with clay which, drying out, has 
become very hard. Generally the doors and win- 
dows are square, with wooden lintels, but I saw 
one here in which the door was perfectly round, 
the clay forming the opening, being reinforced with 
small branches of cedar. Looking from below, it 
was the round black opening like a bull’s-eye on 
the light coloured cliff that attracted our attention. 
Dwellers on the cliffs had disappeared before 
historic times in the West, but their descendants 
still exist as the Pueblo Indians, who are undoubt- 
edly the same race. 
Entering the canyon we passed on the right 
a mound upon which there was a circle of stones, a 
further evidence of former occupation. We fol- 
lowed the course of a dry creek for some distance, 
then as it was getting dark, and as we had reached 
a little water, we camped. While our driver was 
looking after his horses we took up our quarters 
in the dry creek, where we were well sheltered from 
the wind by the banks, which were six or seven 
feet high. We built a fire of sage, which gives great 
