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13 a man. All the drudgery, the work of cooking, paddling the canoe, bringing firewood, pitching the tipi, in fact all the occupations of Indian life except such as appertain to war or the hunt or fishing, devolve upon the women who seem to crossed out - bear their laborious lot with cheerfulness & seem to consider that department as their appropriate sphere. At the gable end over the door is a shed or flat roof extending some eight or ten feet from the building & supported by posts unknown, This furnished a shady retreat where the inhabitants generally sit on benches or rather tables constructed on either side of the door, on mats woven in tasteful patterns of rashes, by? the squaws, while the children & dogs play around in all the wildness?