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272 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES.
make up of this ancient Mexican
jacal was quite an interesting
study ! The interior rooms, bare of
any window, was a nine by twenty
feet chamber, and undoubtedly
used by the entire family. The
frame-work of this hut consisted
of three very thick poles from
the hackberry tree, put deeply in
the ground, about five feet apart,
with the thickest pole in the
center. About two feet of the
upper trunk, or bifurcation of
these hackberry trees, served
to support a long and thick
ac'kblerry pole-tightly fastened
between the forked trunk of thehackberry stems along the north
and south sides-in order to sup-
port the roof coverings which
consist of patches of tule. All
of the wooden cross-bars were
tightly adjusted to the main
forked stems by means of wire
and rawhide strips, as well as
strips of the Texas dagger plant
-"amole." The intersecting
spaces of the north side wooden
structure had been plastered
with black and yellowish adobe
mud: but all the thus plastered
south wall of the hut had
crumbled off from the ravages
of time, and exposing the in-AN OLD MEXICAN VILLAGE SCENERY, ALAZAN CREEK
three central poles which were
only ten feet apart. Then, on the
north and south side of this
structure a row of other, but
more slender hackberry poles
had been placed deeply into the
ground-all with a fork at the
upper end, over which long
cross-stems of hackberry were
securely placed. These north
and south sides supporting
side rows of wooden logs
were only about four feet above
the ground, and the three twenty
feet long cross bars had been
covered by numbers of otherterior of the hut, with only a few
of the supporting side stems left.
Some long nails had been driven
about a foot apart all along the
north and south side supporting
hackberry stems-to hang up
sundry domestic objects; and
a long wire had been strung
from one end of the supporting
stems to the other-undoubtedly
serving to hang up dry meat-
the raw meat usually being first
well salted and then hung up on
a line inside the yard or corral
or along a line stretched out over
the fence and exposed to the sun.
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Menger, R. Texas Nature Observations and Reminiscenses, book, 1913; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143558/m1/276/?q=menger: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.