Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 322
no less ad- 789 liantiy whitewashed, according to the Pueblocustom, with gypsum. The rafters are thestraight trunks of tapering pines, stripped oftheir bark ; and above these is a roof of strawand clay which is perfectly water-tight. Thedoors and windows are all small,— anotherrelic of the days of… … PUEBLO OF TAOS. vantage. Even where a terraced house stoodalone, it could easily be defended against afar superior force ; and as a rule the tenementswere built around a square, so that their sheerback walls presented a cliff-like face which nosavage foe could scale, and their fronts facedupon the…
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