A dreary _plaza_ is surrounded by miserable adobe, or adobe-plastered, buildings.

The only edifices that looked clean and neat were the school, jail, and town-house.

We found shelter at a sort of a _meson_, where we could get no supper until nine, or possibly till ten.

Rather than go inside the rooms, we took possession of the corridor, and there, with two cots, a table, and the floor, lay down to rest.

But not to sleep! The town, small as it was, had twenty cases of _la grippe_.