jacales

To-day the ruins are surrounded by a rude native population, most of whom dwell in wretched _jacales_, in a waterless and sun-beat valley -- an environment in striking contrast to the antique splendour of these halls of the earlier occupiers of the land.

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919

To-day the great pyramid casts its shadow toward a small village of _jacales_, upon a semi-arid plain.

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919

A few of the houses are built of the usual _adobe_ bricks; the major portion -- there may be a dozen or so -- are simply _jacales_, as the

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919

Not a hilltop in the vicinity of any human habitations -- be they but the wretched _jacales_ or wattle-huts of the poorest peasants -- but is surmounted by a cross: not a spring or well but is adorned with flowers in honour of that patron saint whose name it bears; and not a field or hamlet or mine but has some religious nomenclature or attribute.

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919

_jacales_ gave place to buildings of brick and stone, founded in many cases upon piles, and between them were streets and canals, giving access to the city from the lake.

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919

_jacales_ -- the squalid habitations of the _peones_, and of the city's poor and outcast, with rambling, dusty roads bordered by hedges of prickly pear, or _nopales_; picturesque, quaint, the roads ankle-deep in white adobe dust, which rises from beneath our horse's hoofs and covers us with an impalpable flour upon traversing the environs of the place.

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919