There Are Several Small Mounds Of Stones Placed At Even Distances Apart, And, Though The Ground Was Originally All Stones, Places Like Paths Have Been Cleared Between Them.

There was also a large, bare, flat rock in the centre of these strange heaps, which were not more than two and a half feet high.

I concluded - it may be said uncharitably, but then I know some of the ways and customs of these people - that these are small kinds of teocallis, and that on the bare rock already mentioned the natives have performed, and will again perform, their horrid rites of human butchery, and that the drippings of the pellucid fountains from the rocky basins above have been echoed and re-echoed by the dripping fountains of human gore from the veins and arteries of their bound and helpless victims. Though the day was hot, the shade and the water were cool, and we could indulge in a most luxurious bath. The largest basin was not deep, but the water was running in and out of it, over the rocks, with considerable force. We searched about to discover by its sound from whence it came, and found on the left-hand side a crevice of white quartz-like stone, where the water came down from the upper rocks, and ran away partly into the basins and partly into rushes, under our feet. On the sloping face of the white rock, and where the water ran down, was a small indent or smooth chip exactly the size of a person's mouth, so that we instinctively put our lips to it, and drank of the pure and gushing element.

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