Here criminals were killed, the flesh stripped from the bones and burned, and the bones secreted in holes in the body of the structure.

If the man had been guilty of a high crime, the entire corpse was burned.
The walls of the temple are a study.

The same food for speculation that is offered the visitor to the Pyramids of Egypt he will find here--the mystery of how they were constructed by a people unacquainted with science and mechanics.

The natives have no invention of their own for hoisting heavy weights, they had no beasts of burden, and they have never even shown any knowledge of the properties of the lever.

Yet some of the lava blocks quarried out, brought over rough, broken ground, and built into this wall, six or seven feet from the ground, are of prodigious size and would weigh tons.