332 Buschmann über die Pirna- Sprache. 



complele, as a min. The olhers had all crumblcd but a fe-w piec.es (folgt auf 

 p. 597 flie üarftellung des Pallaftes, mit Grundrifs daneben: „Aztec Ruins, near the 

 Gila"J of low (598), broken ■wall. The large cara was ZO feet by 40, and had 

 been four stories high, but the floors and roof liad long since been burnt out. 

 The charred ends of the cedar joist were still in the wall. I examined theni, 

 and fomid that they had not been cut with a steel instrument; the joists were 

 round sticks , about four feet in diameter; there were Jbur entrances — north, 

 south, east , and west; the doors about Jbur foet by two; 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 ßlled with rubbish, and abowe it was open 

 to the sky; the walls were four feet thick at the botlom , and had a curved in- 

 clination inwards to the top; the house was built of a sort of white earth and 

 pebbles , probably containing Urne, which abounded on the ground adjacent; the 

 walls had been smoothed outside, and plastered inside , and the surface still re- 

 inained firm, allhough it was evident they had been exposed to a great heat front 

 thefire; some of the rooms did not open to all the rest, but had a hole a foot 

 in diameter to look through; in otlier places , were smaller holes. About two 

 hundred yards from this building was a niound (beigegeben die Abbildung) in a 

 circle a hundred yards around; the centre was a hollow , 25 yards in diameter, 

 with two vamps or slopes going down to its bottom; it was probably a well, 

 now partly filled up; a similar one was seen near Mount Dallas. A few yards 

 further, in the same direction, northward, wasaterrace, \QQ yards by 10. About 

 fwe feet high upon this (folgt ein Grundrifs), was a pyranüd about eight feet high, 

 25 yards square at top, From this, sitting on my horse , I could ouerlook the 

 vast piain lying northeast and west on the le/t bank of the Gila; the ground 

 in view was about 15 miles , all of ^vhich, it would seem, had been irrigated by 

 the walers of the Gila. I picked up a broken crystal of quartz in one of these 

 piles. Leaving the "cara," I turned towards the Pimos, and travelling at random 

 oi>er the piain, no%v covered with mesquite, the piles of earth and pottery showed 

 for hours in e\>ery direction. I also found the remains of a sicia, which followed 

 the ränge of houses Jor miles. It had been -very large. TVhen I got to camp, 

 I found them on good grass , and in communication with the Pimos, ivho came 

 out wilh a frank welcome. Their answer to Carson, when he went up and asked 

 for provisions, was, "bread is to eat, not to seil; take what you want." The ge- 

 neral asked a Pinto who made the house I had seen. "It is the Cara de Mon- 

 tezuma," said he (599); "it was built by the son of the most beautiful woman 

 who once dwelt in yon mountain; she was fair, and all tite handsome men came 

 to court her, but in vain; when they came, they paid tribute , and out of this 

 small Store, she Jed all people in times of famine , and it did not diminish; at 

 last, as sfie lay asleep , a drop of rain feel {lies feil) upon her navel, and she 



