A TOLTEC BABYLON. 7 * 
seasick to watch the ill-mated pair get 
over the ground. 
We were soon back again to Corralitos, 
and inside the forbidding looking gates. 
Here we were very comfortably housed, 
with a bright fire burning in the bedroom 
fireplace to take the chill off the air, as 
the rooms in these thick adobe buildings 
are much like cellars in their temperature, 
whether it is warm or cold outside. We 
had not been in many hours before other 
strangers began to arrive : Englishmen 
from their ranches, miners from the silver 
mines, a surveying party, and a number of 
cattlemen. By nightfall the place was 
swarming with people, and the problem 
was where to stow away so many for the 
night. The long table in the old adobe 
dining room was three times full. There 
is no lack of fresh meat on such an haci- 
