It is a very queer place,--the queerest that ever I was in, and I have been in some rum corners, too.

First of all, it is enormous in size.
I should think that the enclosure must be acres and acres.

There is a modern part, which took all our garrison, women, children, stores, and everything else, with plenty of room over.

But the modern part is nothing like the size of the old quarter, where nobody goes, and which is given over to the scorpions and the centipedes.

It is all full of great deserted halls, and winding passages, and long corridors twisting in and out, so that it is easy enough for folk to get lost in it.