L room in the center being four stories high, and those adjoining it
on its
four sides three stories, with walls 2 varas thick, of strong
argamaso y baro (adobe) so smooth on the inside that they resemble
planed boards, and so polished that they shine like Puebla pottery.
[Footnote 1: An English translation is given by H. H. Bancroft,
Works, iv, p. 622, note. Also by Bartlett, Personal Narrative, 1854,
vol. ii, pp. 281-282; another was published by Schoolcraft, Hist.
Cond. and Pros. of Am.
Ind., vol.
iii, 1853, p. 301.] [Footnote 2: Quite an extensive list is given
by Bancroft (op. cit., pp. 622-625, notes), and by Bandelier in
Papers
Arch. Inst. of Amer., American series,
i, p. 11, note.] Mange also gives some details of construction, and
states that in the immediate vicinity there were remains of twelve
other buildings, the walls half fallen and the roofs burned out.
Following Mange's account there were a number of descriptions
of no special value, and a more useful one written by Padre Font, who
in 1775 and 1776 made a journey to Gila and Colorado
rivers and beyond. This description[1] is quite circumstantial
and is of especial interest because it formed the basis of nearly all
the
