We laid there for an hour, watching.

The buildings were all huddled together--a lot of flat, brown adobe houses.

We could see the natives moving down among them, but none of us noticed anything unusual going on until Taggart calls our attention.
"'Did you notice ?' he said.
"'Notice what ?' we all answered.
"'That they're all women down there--I ain't seen a man!' "That was a fact.

There didn't seem to be a man anywhere about.

We talked it over and concluded that we'd got there at a most advantageous time.