It is a happy omen." When they had rested and dried their clothes they marched on with a certain sense of relief.

There before them was the goal they had travelled so far to win; soon they would know the worst that could befall, and anything was better than this long suspense.
By midday they had covered about fifteen miles of ground, and could now see the city clearly.

It was a great town, surrounded by a Cyclopean wall of boulders, about which the river ran on every side, forming a natural moat.

The buildings within the wall seemed to be arranged in streets, and to be build on a plan similar to that of the house in which they had slept two nights before, the vast conglomeration of grass-covered roofs giving the city the appearance of a broken field of turf hillocks supported upon walls of stone.
For the rest the place was laid out upon a slope, and at its head, immediately beneath the sheer steps of the mountain side stood two edifices very much larger in size than any of those below.

One of these resembled the other houses in construction, and was surrounded by a separate enclosure; but the second, which was placed on higher ground, so far as they could judge at that distance, was roofless, and had all the characteristics of a Roman amphitheatre.