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Show DESCRIPTION OF ORAIBI. 363 are very tall. On this patio there are two, or three, or four- all of which ( numbers) I saw- dwelling-places ( quartos), each with its own door, closed with bolts and keys of wood. Of the house where there is poultry, the coop stands in the patio. Against the wall on the right or left- for there are each of these- is placed a ladder for ascending to the upper stories (& los altos). These contain a large hall that there is in the middle, and a room at the sides. At the same collateral walls there is another ladder to ascend to the roof, which for all the houses is one with those adjoining in the same square; which latter is commonly not very large, owing to the number of streets which intersect. I found, to be more particular, that the houses all present their rear walls ( se dan todas la. espalda), in such manner that no one can see what his neighbor is doing without going up on the roof. The shape of the pueblo is neither perfectly square nor perfectly round. As soon as I entered therein and we alighted in sight of the very many women and children that there were on the house- tops, I approached with the intention of going up into a house known to the Yabipai who accompanied me, and who had already saluted from below the proprietor who stood on the roof. But before I could ascend she told the Yabipai to notify me there was no admittance for myself, and not |