To one side of it are the _portales_ and the town-house and _jefatura_.

To the right of the town and behind it is a large, walled cemetery with many gravestones.

Back of all, rise hills of tufa, such as we had just traversed.

The houses, similar to those at Huautla, and in the country between there and here, appear to be constructed with a view to cold.
At least, two houses usually occur in one inclosure; the one, more important, corresponds to the god-house of the Aztecs and the other to the cook-house.

The former is better built, and has low, carefully constructed walls, and a high abruptly four-pitched, heavily thatched roof.