.OTIy.NTc3OTA

was cleared away, and a huge fire kindled, over which a pot containing 6 or 7 squirrels was soon seen simmering for our breakfasts, whilst poles were cut for our tent and logs chopped for a supply of firewood. The Indian method of pitching a tent camp (tho few are rich lucky ? to possess tent cloths and content themselves with a bark substitute) is this. In the first place the fire is some 6 ft long & about 3 ft from the fire and from its center a pole of hickory sapling is driven into the ground, a similar one is driven in about 8 ft from the first, the two being a right angle to the fire both being chosen with a fork at the top across which another pole is laid, over the cloth is drawn and secured by by pegs to the ground the cloth being of sufficient length to dr...