A store-room, in a good state of preservation, resembled in every detail the store-houses used by the Tarahumares of the present day, being square and built of stone and mud.

In none of these rooms was it possible for me to stand upright.

Apart from this group, a few yards higher up in the cave, were two small houses.

The floor of the cave was getting higher and higher.

I had to crawl on my stomach for about ten yards and came suddenly to the edge of a precipice; but a track led around it to the other side, where I found the main portion of the houses, eighteen in all, the largest having a side thirteen feet long, though the others were considerably smaller.