FE WKES] SCENERY OF THE RED-ROCKS 553 
be banded, rising from 800 to 1,000 feet sheer on all sides. These rocks 
had weathered into fantastic shapes suggestive of cathedrals, Greek 
temples, and sharp steeples of churches extending like giant needles 
into the sky. The scenery compares very favorably with that of the 
Garden of the Gods, and is much more extended. This place, I have 
no doubt, will sooner or later become popular with the sightseer, and I 
regard the discovery of these cliffs one of the most interesting of my 
summer’s field work. 
On the sides of these inaccessible cliffs we woticed several cliff 
houses, but so high were they perched above us that they were almost 
invisible. To reach them at their dizzy altitude was impossible, but 
we were able to enter some caves a few hundred feet above our camp, 
finding in them nothing but charred mescal and other evidences of 
Apache camps. Their walls and entrances are blackened with smoke, 
but no sign of masonry was detected. 
We moved our camp westward from this canyon (which, from a great 
cliff resembling the Parthenon, I called Temple canyon), following the 
base of the precipitous mountains to a second canyon, equally beautiful 
but not so grand, and built our fire in a small grove of scrub oak and 
cottonwood. In this lonely place Lloyd had lived over a winter, watch- 
ing his stock, and had dug a well and erected a corral. We adopted 
his name for this camp and called it Lloyd canyon. There was no water 
in the well, but a few rods beyond it there was a pool, from which we 
watered our horses. On the first evening at this camp we sighted a 
bear, which gave the name Honanki, ‘‘Bear-house,” to the adjacent 
ruined dwellings. 
The enormous precipice of red rock west of our camp at Lloyd’s cor- 
ral hid Honanki from view at first, but we soon found a trail leading 
directly to it, and during our short stay in this neighborhood we 
remained camped near the cottonwoods at the entrance to the canyon, 
not far from the abandoned corral. Our studies of Honanki led to the 
discovery of Palatki (figure 247), which we investigated on our return to 
Templecanyon. I will, therefore, begin my description of the Red-rock 
cliff houses with those last discovered, which, up to the visit which I 
made, had never been studied by archeologists. 
PALATKI 
There are two neighboring ruins which I shall include in my consid- 
eration of Palatki, and these for convenience may be known as Ruin 
and Ruin 1, the former situated a little eastward from the latter. 
They are but a short distance apart, and are in the same box canyon. 
Ruin I (plate xcrx) is the better preserved, and is a fine type of the 
compact form of cliff dwellings in the Red-rock country. 
This ruin is perched on the top of a talus which has fallen from the 
cliff above, and is visible for some distance above the trees, as one 
penetrates the canyon. It is built to the side of a perpendicular wall 
