300 



OUR DOMESTIC ARRANGEMKNTS. 



layers ; these being very dry, caught fire tliree or four 

 times during our stay, and caused much trouble, and 

 danger of losing our dwelling, which, rough though it 

 was, we should sadly have missed at this season. 



Lli(r *I"X 



NEW FORT FRANKLIN. 



No pampered luxury was evidenced in the nature and 

 arrangement of the furniture : one treble, two 

 double, and one single bedstead, of Avorkmanship 

 curious as elegant, being all the unaided product of 

 the axe, stools of massive condition, each formed 

 from a single block, and a table, which ever 



