Human skeletons might be seen along the walls.

There were some, too, of dromedaries and mules.

Half-gnawed carrion blocked the streets.
Night fell.

The sky was lowering and cloudy.
They ascended again for two hours in a westerly direction, when suddenly they perceived a quantity of little flames before them.
These were shining at the bottom of an ampitheatre.

Gold plates, as they displaced one another, glanced here and there.