 Each pueblo is built around a rectangular court, in which we suppose are the springs that furnish the supply to the reservoirs. The exterior walls, which are of stone, have no openings, and would have to be scaled or battered down before access could...  West American History - Page 669by Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Joseph C. Ives - 1861 - 458 lehte
...distance, the approach of strangers. The towns themselves would be almost impregnable to an Indian assault. Each pueblo is built around a rectangular court, in...three rooms deep, and open upon the interior court. The arrangement is as strong and compact as could well be devised, but as the court is common, and... | |
 | Lieutenant Joseph C.Ives - 1861 - 384 lehte
...distance, the approach of strangers. The towns themselves would be almost impregnable to an Indian assault. Each pueblo is built around a rectangular court, in...three rooms deep, and open upon the interior court. The arrangement is as strong and compact as could well be devised, but as the court is common, and... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1869 - 784 lehte
...gained to the interior. The successive stories are set back, one behind the other. The lower rooms arc reached through trap-doors from the first landing....three rooms deep, and open upon the interior court. The arrangement is as strong and compact as could well be devised, but, as the court is common, and... | |
 | John Thomas Short - 1879 - 558 lehte
...be gained to the interior. The successive stories are set back one behind the other. The lower ones are reached through trap-doors from the first landing....three rooms deep, and open upon the interior court. The arrangement is as strong and compact as well could be devised, but as the court is common and the... | |
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - 1881 - 382 lehte
...roof, where we beheld a magnificent panorama. * * * '\\r e learned that there were seven towns. * * * Each pueblo is built around a rectangular court, in...three rooms deep, and open upon the interior court. The arrangement is as h-' i • • '.v, ,' ' .••'•»• . ^ strong and compact as could well... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - 1896 - 666 lehte
...distance, the approach of strangers. The towns themselves would be almost impregnable to an Indian assault. Each pueblo is built around a rectangular court, in...three rooms deep, and open upon the interior court. The arrangement is as strong and compact as could well be devised, but as the court is common and the... | |
 | Thomas Wilhelm - 1881 - 676 lehte
...of the houses open. The exterior walls, which are of stone, have no openings, and would have to bo scaled or battered down before access could be gained...reached through trap-doors from the first landing; the latter is reached by means of detached ladders. The houses are three rooms deep, and open from the... | |
 | Thomas Wilhelm - 1881 - 722 lehte
...are of stone, have no openings, and would have to bo scaled or battered down before access could bo gained to the interior. The successive stories are...reached through trap-doors from the first landing ; the latter is reached by means of detached ladders. The houses are three rooms deep, and open from the... | |
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - 1881 - 378 lehte
...imply that he did, and that the structure occupied but three sides of the court, since he states that "the houses are three rooms deep and open upon the interior court." The structure was three stories high. PIG. 26.— Room iu Moki House. The above engraving was prepared... | |
 | 1883 - 406 lehte
...Pueblos as follows: Each Pueblo is built around a rectangular court, in which are the springs which furnish the supply to the reservoirs. The exterior...three rooms deep, and open upon the interior court. The arrangement is as strong and compact as could well be devised, but as the court is common, and... | |
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