Each house surrounded a courtyard and was in turn surrounded by a garden, while between them ran canals, having footpaths on either side.

Then there were squares, and in the squares pyramids, palaces, and temples without end.

I gazed on them till I was bewildered, but all seemed as nothing when at length I saw the great temple with its stone gateways opening to the north and the south, the east and the west, its wall carven everywhere with serpents, its polished pavements, its teocallis decked with human skulls, thousands upon thousands of them, and its vast surrounding tianquez, or market place.

I caught but a glimpse of it then, for the darkness was falling, and afterwards we were borne on through the darkness, I did not know whither.
A while went by and I saw that we had left the city, and were passing up a steep hill beneath the shadow of mighty cedar trees.

Presently we halted in a courtyard and here I was bidden to alight.