The houses were situated very much as in other places we had come through--scattered around over much ground and built low, but had a different style of roof, a peaked or sloping one, and covered with half round tile two feet or more long and an inch thick.

One course of these would be laid with the hollow side up, and then a course with the hollow side down, covering the joints of the lower course.

This allowed the air to circulate freely and was proof against rain.

I saw no flat roofs such as I had seen down along the coast.

I saw one gambling house and about all the men in town were gathered there, and some women, too.