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ing approaching a square, & the roof reaching nearer to the ground. It is formed of a frame work of sapllings & together with the bark of the covers and interwoven with pieces of bark, the entrance is closed by a pieces of buffalo hide which hangs by a point from above the door. Within, a platform or divan of about five feet in width & elevated some two feet & a half from the ground, extends around three sides of the apartment leaving a quadrangular space in front of the door & in the centre of the lodge about six feet square, in the center of which a fire is made . Over this hangs the kettle - formerly crockery of Indian manufacture took the place of the copper kettles supplied by the traders. The smoke from the fire escapes this