There was never any wall built underneath these surface stones, nor were there any traces of charring.

Among the ruins found on top of the hills we collected a lot of broken pottery and some flint arrowheads.

In several places in this district we found gold and coal, but not in paying quantities.
Some forty miles south of Cochuta we turned in a southerly direction, ascending a hilly plateau 3,200 feet above sea-level.

Here we observed the first orchids, yellow in colour and deliciously fragrant, and in the canon below we met the first palms.

The rocks continued to show volcanic and metamorphic formation.
About 130 miles south of Bisbee we caught the first glimpse of the Sierra Madre rising above the foot-hills, some forty miles off to the east.