It made me dizzy to look at it.

We'd been climbing the slope of a mountain all afternoon--traveling in the daytime now, because we were getting near the end of our journey--Nebraska in the lead, the rest trailing him.

We saw Nebraska stop and duck back into some brush.

Then we all sneaked up to him and got our first look at the town.
"It looked to me as though the place had been made to hide in.

The mountain dropped away below us, straight down about a hundred feet, a smooth rock wall.