258 CAVE AND CLIFF DWELLERS. 
unless there were brush to assist in climb¬ 
ing, we could easily make out, with the 
help of our glasses, that corn had been 
planted by these strange people. It 
seemed as if the tops of the dwarf plants 
were just up to the roots of the next row 
of corn above them, if they can really be 
said to have been planted in rows at all. 
Much as I would have liked to visit the 
place, the condition of my mules and the 
state of my provisions made it clearly out 
of the question; moreover, I was in¬ 
formed that better chances to see cliff 
dwellers would present themselves before 
long, which statement, fortunately, was 
soon verified. Not far from Camp Diaz 
was a place where we could have tied our 
braided horsehair lariats together and 
let a person down one hundred to two 
hundred feet into the tops of some tall 
