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branched off to the left of the door. I had just gone 

 far enough to have my hopes revived by the pros- 

 pect of some satisfactory result, when again I found 

 the passage choked up by the falling in and burial 

 of the arch. 



I measured and took the bearings of this too. 

 From the excessive heat and annoyance, this plan 

 may not be very correct, and therefore I do not pre- 

 sent it. The description will enable the reader to 

 form some general idea of the character of the struc- 

 ture. 



In exploring that part to the left of the door, I 

 made an important discovery. In the walls of one 

 of the passages was a hole eight inches square, which 

 admitted light, and looking through it, I saw some 

 plump and dusky legs, which clearly did not belong 

 to the antiguos, and which I easily recognised as 

 those of my worthy attendants. 



Having heard the place spoken of as a subterra- 

 neous construction, and seeing, when I reached the 

 ground, a half-buried door with a mass of overgrown 

 earth above it, it had not occurred to me to think 

 otherwise ; but on examining outside, I found that 

 what I had taken for an irregular natural formation, 

 like a hill-side, was a pyramidal mound of the same 

 general character with all the rest we had seen in 

 the country. Making the Indians clear away some 

 thorn-bushes, with the help of the branches of a 

 tree growing near I climbed up it. On the top were 

 the ruins of a building, the same as all the others. 



