On one side of the cave, some two feet off, was a small tower, also in ruins, measuring inside four feet in diameter, while the walls were about six inches thick.
Pinnacles of eroded conglomerate are a prominent characteristic of the landscape west of the Rio Chico; further on, the usual volcanic formation appears again.

After fully twenty miles of travel we found ourselves again in pine forests and at an altitude of 7,400 feet.

Here we were overtaken, in the middle of February, by a rain and sleet storm, which was quite severe, although we were sheltered by tall pine trees in a little valley.

It turned to snow and grew very cold, and then the storm was over.

Here a titmouse and a woodpecker were shot, and the bluebirds were singing in the snow.
Travelling again eleven miles further brought us to the plains of Naverachic, where we camped.