The buildings, besides being rectangles themselves, were so placed that the group made a rectangle.
The structures of stone were partly ruined, and of great age.

They followed the uniform plan of those vast and mysterious ruins found so often in Southern and Central Mexico.

The same race that erected the pyramids on the Teotihuacan might have raised these buildings.
"My home! The quarters of myself and my men," said Carossa, dramatically, pointing to the largest of the buildings.

"We do not know who built it.

It goes far beyond the time of Cortez, but it serves us now.