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9 under his hospital roof for "three or four sleeps" as the Indians say. - The village of "Kaposia" or "the lithe people," is situated on a small piece of bottom land which intrudes? between the bluffs & the Mississippi river - It commands a very beatiful view up & down the stream contains about three hundred souls. The village is composed of two sorts of habitations winter houses & summer houses or Tipis a house, or Maykayas skin covering & Tipitonkas large - The winter house is a tent made furless buffalo hides, tanned like buckskin sewed together, supported on poles & held together at the seam by splints of wood, it being left open at the top to permit the smoke to escape & beneath is an aper-