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plank. Another class of dwellings are of hewn logs. They are more commodious & neat than those of which I have been speaking - Others still are thus made in the | plank. Another class of dwellings are of hewn logs. They are more commodious & neat than those of which I have been speaking - Others still are thus made in the first place & thin boarded as our own & with common boards - And there are on the public road here & there Some well constructed & elegant houses; and at New Echota the Capital of the nation there were Several of this discription. The more intelligent & [[unclear]] civilized part of the Cherokees have beds & Tables & the necessary articles of furniture. Yet it is this respect & in point of neatness that they Suffer most when compared with their white neighbors. A blanket is generally deemed abundantly adequate to answer all the purposes of beds of [[unclear]] & in many of thier dwellings very few cooking utensels will be Seen. & No Cherokee family depended wholly upon hunting for Subsistence during my residence among them. | ||
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plank. Another class of dwellings are of hewn logs. They are more commodious & neat than those of which I have been speaking - Others still are thus made in the first place & thin boarded as our own & with common boards - And there are on the public road here & there Some well constructed & elegant houses; and at New Echota the Capital of the nation there were Several of this discription. The more intelligent & unclear civilized part of the Cherokees have beds & Tables & the necessary articles of furniture. Yet it is this respect & in point of neatness that they Suffer most when compared with their white neighbors. A blanket is generally deemed abundantly adequate to answer all the purposes of beds of unclear & in many of thier dwellings very few cooking utensels will be Seen. & No Cherokee family depended wholly upon hunting for Subsistence during my residence among them.