They hugged the rocks so closely that most of the time their figures disappeared in the inky shadows of projecting or beetling cliffs and pillars.

One of these men asked in a low tone,-- "Are you going to the uuityam ?" "I am," replied the other.
The words were spoken in a tone sufficiently loud to enable any one acquainted with the inhabitants of the Tyuonyi to recognize in the first speaker Tyame Tihua, the delegate or councilman from the Eagle clan, in the other, our old friend Topanashka.

After exchanging these few words both continued their walk in silence.
The round chamber in which the meetings of the tribal council were usually held exists to-day as a semicircular indentation in the cliffs, the rudely arched ceiling of which is still covered with a thick coating of soot.

The front wall has crumbled long ago.

At the time we speak of it was entire, and the apartment formed a nearly circular hall of more than usual size, with a low entrance in front and two small air-holes on each side of the doorway.
As the two men approached the place, they noticed that a number of others were already congregated in front of it, but that no light issued from the interior.