tion on the bottom of the pond to the conical 

 top was eight feet high. The foundation of this 

 house was made of turf, masses of grass roots, 

 and a small percentage of mud thickly reinforced 

 with numerous willow sticks. The floor was 

 mostly sticks. As the entrance tunnels were filled 

 with water to a point about three inches below 

 the floor-level, and as these were the only en- 

 trances or openings into the house, friend or foe 

 could enter only by coming up through one or 

 the other of these water-filled tunnels from the 

 bottom of the pond. 



The single, circular, dome-like room of this 

 house was four and a half feet in diameter and 

 about two feet in height. Its ceiling was roughly 

 formed by a confused interlacing of sticks, which 

 stood at an angle. The spaces between were filled 

 with root-matted mud. The walls were a trifle 

 more than two feet thick, except around the coni- 

 cal top. Here was a small space, mostly of inter- 

 lacing sticks, the thickness of which was but one 

 foot. As very little mud had been used in this part, 

 there were thus left a few tiny air-holes. As I ap- 

 proached, there could be seen arising from these 

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