FEWKES] FEATURES OF HONANKI RUIN 559 
and evidences that at some seasons there is an abundant water supply. 
A corral had been made and a well dug near its mouth, but with these 
exceptions there were no evidences of pre- 
vious occupancy by white men. We had 
hardly pitched our camp before tracks of 
large game were noticed, and before we left 
we sighted a bear which had come down to 
the water to drink, but which beat a hasty 
retreat at our approach. As _ previously 
stated, the knowledge of this ruin was com- 
municated to me by Mr Schiirmann. 
The Honanki ruin (figure 248) extends 
along the base of the cliff for a consider- 
able distance, and may for convenience of 
description be divided into two sections, 
which, although generally similar, differ 
somewhat in structural features. The for- 
mer is lineal in its arrangement, and con- 
sists of a fringe of houses extending along 
the base of the cliff at a somewhat lower 
level than the other. The walls of this sec- 
tion were for the greater part broken, and 
at no place could anything more than the 
foundation of the front wall be detected, 
although fragments of masonry strewed the 
sides of the declivity near its base. The 
house walls which remain are well-built par- 
allel spurs constructed at right angles to 
the cliff, which served as the rear of all the 
chambers. At the extreme right end of this 
row of rooms, situated deep in a large cav- 
ern with overhanging roof, portions of a 
rear wall of masonry are well preserved, 
and the lateral walls of one or two cham- 
bers in this portion of the ruin are still in- 
tact. Straggling along from that point, fol- 
lowing the contour of the base of the cliff 
under which it lies, there extends a long 
row of rooms, all destitute of a front wall. 
The first division (plate c11), beginning 
with the most easterly of the series, is 
quite hidden at one end in a deep cavern. 
At this point the builders, in order to obtain 
a good rear wall to their rooms, constructed 
a line of masonry parallel with the face of the cliff. At right angles 
to this construction, at the eastern extremity, there are remnants of a 
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