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the rooms are well filled with objects left behind, whereas on the side 

 first excavated and apparently long unoccupied we found little. 



"Our excavations have revealed one calamity that befell this city. 

 The greater part of the east and north sides were swept by fire. We can 

 not be sure that this was due to one big fire, but it was most likely so. 

 The ceilings were of wood, supported by great logs of cedar and spruce, 

 overlaid by split cedar and bark. These fell down upon each other and 

 lay in the lower rooms in great charred masses. No doubt many precious 

 objects went out in this great fire. As I have said before, we found the 

 bodies of several unfortunates caught in the rooms. 



"As the fire did not reach the west side we find a large number of 

 rooms with their ceilings still intact and household utensils on the floor 

 just as they were left. 



"I have spent some time estimating the amount of timber used in 

 building this city. There were the logs of some 200 pine trees 30 feet 

 long and about 12 inches in diameter. About 600 cedar logs of the same 

 size, but averaging 10 feet in length. (The cedar here rarely produces a 

 longer trunk.) About 1200 straight beautiful poles of pine and cotton 

 wood. Finally there are not less than 100 cords of split cedar splints 

 for covering the ceilings. All this wood was worked with stone. From 

 this it is clear that these people were good lumberjacks. 



"A ^Mexican who has been working for us just came in to report that 

 he has uncovered a skeleton. Upon examination we found that the body 

 had apparently been buried in a fallen room at the edge of the ruin. A 

 little lower down we came upon the skeleton of his grandchild (?) prob- 

 ably about five years old. 



"This reminds me that we have named the extreme southwest corner 

 of the ruin 'Potters' Field.' Among the bodies buried here no utensils or 

 implements have been found, and they are not wrapped. This was also 

 a poorly built section. The rooms contain very little. Further back the 

 rooms have fine stone walls and the burials show every sign of wealth. 



"A few days ago at the west side of the ruin the digging of a post hole 

 brought to light the stone wall of a kiva below the level of the ruin. 

 This seems to belong to a small but much older ruin that preceded." 



The season's plan is to work out the main remaining portion of the 

 west side of the ruin. 



