Koof and walls of palmettos well bound together on a frame work 
of poles ingeniously and strongly put together. Floor and earth 
ee nen san Mart 
in the middle of the village we found an ancient ruine A 
terrace some four feet high and nearly a hundred feet square is 
occupied by an ancient temple or house at one end and a modern 
church - a mere hovel with the simplest possible altar - at the 
other. See sketches and notes. 
At another point we found a large court entered by two fine 
arches and again at a point one-fourth mile north of the village 
Other like remains. There has been a eonside rable group extending 
over many acres per anee but the use of the stone for building 
had led to its almost complete destruction. Quarries recently 
worked were observed at various points and one of the fine arches 
had recently been robbed of nearly all the stone, the. shape, oddly 
enough, being preserved by the net work of roots which still held 
here and there in firm embrace some of the stones and at one side 
a considerable mass of masonry still held its place 12 feet high. 
3 miles southeast from landing and but a little north of the lagoon. 
Rocks all the same, rough, pitted seaeee like limestone with 
usual shells. ADE Png) oe 
The Father of the ato. ead withered Indian with blue 
blause and hatless was “half seas over", but still was able to tell 
us various things about this place. 
