The buildings were quite numerous.

Upon many of them much labor had been expended.
Luxuriant corn-fields spread widely around, and in well-cultivated gardens they raised beans and other vegetables in considerable abundance.
The hungry army found a good supply of dried beans for themselves, and carefully housed corn for their horses.

They feasted themselves, loaded their pack-horses with corn and beans, applied the torch to every lodge, laying the whole town in ashes, and then commenced their backward march.

Fresh Indian tracks indicated that many of them had remained until the last moment of safety.
The next day the army marched back about fifteen miles to the spot where it had held its last encampment.

Eight hundred men, on a campaign, consume a vast amount of food.