Just behind the hacienda is the Ojo de Agua--the Eye of Water--a beautiful basin, surrounded by a green sward and a wood of oaks and fir-trees.

A little stream takes its rise from the spring which bubbles up into this basin, and the name "Ojo de Agua," is a general term applied to such fountain-heads.

When one looks down from a high hill upon one of these Eyes of Water, one sees how the name came to be given, and indeed, the idiom is thousands of years older than the Spanish tongue, and belongs as well to the Hebrew and Arabic.

A Mexican calls a lake _atezcatl_, Water-Mirror, an expressive word, which reminds one of the German _Wasserspiegel_.
Soon after nightfall we got back to the English inn, and went to bed without any further event happening, except the burning of some outhouses, which we went out to see.

The custom of roofing houses with pine-shingles ("tacumeniles"), and the general use of wood for building all the best houses, make fires very common here.