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11 ing a square, & the roof reaching nearer to the ground. It is formed of a frame work of saplings bound? together with the bark of the crossed out - unknown covered and interwoven with pieces of bark, the entrance is closed by a piece 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 crossed out - tin kettles supplied by the traders. The smoke from the fire escapes thro'