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Her virtue, and her determinatiom to remain unmarried were eel 
“ly firm. There came a drought which’threatened the world Bee 
famine. In their distress, people applied to her, and she gave M 
from her stock, and the supply seemed to be endless.. Her good- ~ 
ness 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. 
trace which built all these houses. : 
I told the interpreter: repeatedly, he must go and report to the : 
general, but his answer was, “let me wait till I blow a little.” ¥ 
The attraction was the aquardente. At length he was prevailed on - 
to go to head-quarters, leaving at our camp his bows and arrows — 
and other matters, saying he would return and pass the night 
with us. . es a 
Vovember 11.—Leaving the column, a few of us struck to the 2 
north side of the river, guided by my logacious friend, the inter- — 
preter, to@visit the ruins of another Casa Montezuma. In y 
course of the ride, I asked him if he believed the fable he had re-” 
lated to me last night, which assigned an origin to these buildings. 
‘“‘No,” said he, “but most-of the Pimos do. We know, in truth, 
nothing of their origin. It is all enveloped in mystery.” : 
he casa was in complete ruins, one pile of broken pottery and — 
foundation stone of the black basalt; making a mound about ten 
feet above the ground. The outline of the ground plan ‘was dis- 
_ tinct enough, . ) 
We found the description of pottery the same as 
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among the ruins, the same sea shell; one worked into 
- also a large bead, an inch and a quarter in length, of b 
exquisitely turned. ; aes és 
_ We secured to-day our long sought bird, the inhabitant of the» 
mezquite, indigo blue plumage, with top knot and long tail. Its 
wings, when spread, showing a white ellipse. : Bee 
Turning from the ruins towards the Pimos village, we urged our — 
guide to go fast, as we wished to seeas much of his people asthe day ‘a 
would permit. He was on foot, but led at a pace which kept our 
mules in a trot, : 
Of sheds. ©The fields are sub-divided 
tangles of about.200 x 
The fences are of sticks 
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