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Show 362 DESCRIPTION OF ORAIBI. and on the very border of the spring of water I saw some gardens or inclosures containing onions, beans, and several other kinds of garden- truck which have evidently cost much labor to produce. 2 Descending and turning about I suddenly found myself in sight of the pueblo. There are two or three tumble- down ( caydas) houses in front of the entrance thereof, and there is seen neither any door nor window. The street which is entered is quite wide, and runs straight from east to west, or from west to east, to the exit from the pueblo, and I believe it to be the only one there is. On one side and the other of this are other cross- streets of the same width, forming perfect squares. I saw also two small open places ( plazuelas). The surface ( piso) is not level, but firm. The pueblo is situated with the lower part toward the east, so that only the streets which run from north to south are level. The houses are of heights some greater, others lesser; according to what I found they have this arrangement: From the ground ( piso) of the street there rises a wall as it were of a vara and a half, at which height is the courtyard ( patio), which is mounted by means of a wooden ladder that may be taken away when they wish. The ladder has no more rungs than are necessary to ascend to the patio; but both the up- rights ( side sticks- palos de los lados) 1 Hortalizas que sc conocia haver costado nracho componer. |