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crossed sticks upon them for steps. This ladder, as we have 
said, was for the inside, so that after we should reach the 
top of the palisade we could pull inside our ladder made 
of creepers, and that would thus be quite safe, for we 
knew that no one-could leap over the palisade. 
We then, in the inside of the palisade, stuck leaves 
upon the walls, so that if perchance any one came they 
could not get a peep at us. 
In the interior of our square there was a somewhat 
tall, slender tree, up which we could climb and observe 
our enemies, and get a good shot at them in case we 
should be attacked ; besides this, we had made a good 
many loop-holes about seven feet above the ground, so 
that no one outside could see through them, and before 
each we had made a high stand from which we could 
fire upon them at our ease. 
How glad we were when it was over! We had then 
to build some huts inside for ourselves, to shelter us 
from the rain. We built roofs for these huts, which we 
covered with the bark of trees, and under it we built an 
orala, to smoke the meat we might get from the game 
_ we should kill. These oralas are made in the following 
manner. Four sticks about four feet in height, which are 
forked, are stuck in the ground, then cross sticks join 
these, and across them are laid quite a number of sticks. 
This orala was of course one of the most useful and nec- 
essary things we required. 
Then we built another shelter for myself, and how 
careful they were about this; it was a real hut, eight feet 
long, six feet broad, with walls five feet high, and the 
ridge of the roof about eight feet in height from the ground. 
There I slept; the powder was carefully stored, and 
