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of surpassing beauty resided in a green spot in the mountains near the place where we 
were encamped. All the men admired, and paid court toher. She received the trib- 
utes of their devotion, grain, skins, etc., but gave no love or other favor inreturn. Her 
virtue, and her determination to remain unmarried were equally firm. There came 
a drought which threatened the world with famine. In their distress, people applied 
to her, and she gave corn from her stock, and the supply seemed to be endless. Her 
goodness was unbounded. One day, as she was lying asleep with her body exposed, a 
drop of rain fell on her stomach, which produced conception. A son was the issue, 
who was the founder of a new race which built all these houses. 
Fic. 4. Casa Grande in 1846 (after a drawing by Stanley). 
JOHNSTON’S NARRATIVE 
Capt. A. R. Johnston’s account of the ruin, accompanied by a 
sketch of the elevation and a ground plan,! which is published with 
Emory’s, reads as follows: 
November 10.—Marched about 8, and after marching 6 miles, still passing plains 
which had once been occupied, we saw to our left the ‘‘Cara [Casa] de Montezuma,”’ 
T rode to it, and found the remains of the walls of four buildings, and the piles of earth 
showing where many other had been. One of the buildings was still quite complete, 
asaruin. [Fig.5.] The others had all crumbled but a few pieces of low, broken 
wall. The large cara [casa] was 50 feet by 40, and had been four stories high, but the 
floors and roof had long since been burnt out. The charred ends of the cedar joists 
were still in the wall, [examined them, and found that they had not been cut witha 
steel instrument; the joists were round sticks, about 4 feet [sic] in diameter; there were 
four entrances—north, south, east, and west; the doors about 4 feet by 2; the rooms as 
below, and had the same arrangement on each story; there was no sign of a fireplace in 
the building; the lower story was filled with rubbish, and above it was open to the sky; 
the walls were 4 feet thick at the bottom, and had a curved inclination inwards to the 
top; the house was built of a sort of white earth and pebbles, probably containing lime, 
which abounded on the ground adjacent; the walls had been smoothed outside, and 
1 Reprinted in Squier, New Mexico and California; in American Review, Nov., 1848. 
