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CURIOUS HOMES AND THEIR TENANTS. 



Pobition ol tlitl dnuUingb. 



provisions stored up for 

 such occasions until their 

 enemies saw tit to leave 

 them ia peace. 



Fully a thousand feet 

 above the Rio Mancos 

 are single houses, groups 

 of two and three, and 

 villages, according to the 

 width of the terrace 

 upon which they are 

 built. They are so high 

 that to an observer at 

 the foot of the cliff they 

 look like mere specks. 

 It is impossible to reach 

 them from above on ac- 

 count of overhanging 

 rocks, and there is no 

 present way of gaining 

 access to them from be- 

 low, although the re- 

 mains of pathways in 

 the rocks show it was 

 once possible to ascend 

 it. 



The labor of carrying 

 material for these build- 

 ings, and provisions and 

 water up the steep face 

 of the cliff can scarcely 



