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of low, broken wall. -The lar^e cara was 50 feet by 40, and had 

 been four stones high, but the floors and roof had long since been 



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"wall. I examined them, and found that they had not been cut with 

 a steel instrument; the joists were round sticks, about four feet in 

 diameter; there were four entrances — north, south, east, and westj ^ 

 the doors about four feet 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 filled with rubbish, and above 

 it was open to the sky; the walls were four feet thick at the bot- 

 tom, and had a curved inclination inwards to the top; the house was 

 built of a sort of white earth and pebbles, probably containing lime, 



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smoothed outside, 'and plastered inside, and the. surface still re- 

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great heat from the fire; some of the rooms did not open to all the 

 rest, but had a hole a foot in diameter to look through; in other 

 laces, were smaller holes. About two hundred yards from this 

 uilding was a mound in a circle a hundred yards'around; the cen- 

 tre was a hollow, 25 yards in diameter, with 

 two vamps or slopes going down to its bottomj 

 it was probably a well, now partly filled up; a 

 similar one was seen near Mount Dallas. A iew 

 yards further, in the same direcUon, northward, 

 -was a terrace, 100 yard? by 70. About five feet high upon this. 



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was a pyramid about efght feet high, 25 yards square at top. Froto 

 this, sitting on my horse, I -could overlook tbe vast plain lying 

 northeast and west on the left bank of the Gila; the ground in view 

 was about 15 miles, all of which, it would seem, had been irrigated 

 by the waters of the Gila, I picked up a broken crystal of quartz 

 m one of these piles'. Leaving the "cara," I turned towards the 

 mos, and travelling at random over the plain, now covered with 

 mesqmte, the piles of earth and pottery showed for hours in every 

 direction. I also found the remains of a sicia, which followed the 

 range of houses for mile's. It had been very large. When I got ta 

 camp, I found thtm on good grass, and in communication with the 

 , I'imos, who came out with a irank welcome. Their answer to Car- 

 son; when he went up and asked for provisions, was, " bread is to 

 eat, not to sellj take what you want." . The general asked a Pimo 

 Who made the house I had seen. " It is the Cara de Montezuma," 



