These passages were too low for doorways, too short to deserve the name of tunnels.

Into the front apartment light and air were admitted through the entrance, and sometimes through small window-like apertures.

The side cells were utterly dark except where excavated parallel to the face of the rock, when sometimes another entrance was opened to the front, sometimes an air-hole only admitted light and air.
If on the afternoon of the day when Shyuote had his perilous adventure with the young people of the Corn clan, we had been able to peep into the third one of the ground-floor caves, counting from the west end of the group inhabited by the Water people, we should have found the apartment empty; that is, as far as human occupancy was concerned.

But not deserted; for while its owner was not there, ample signs of his presence only a short time before could be detected everywhere.

In the fireplace wood was smouldering, and a faint smoke rising from this found egress through a crude chimney.