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CHAPTER VI. 



( >:«,- the 6tb "l* ' > . the house bein leted, 



we struck our tents, and removed into it. It \ 

 merely :i log building, fifty feel Long, and twenty-four 



wide, divided into a hall, three bed-r ds, and a 



kitchen. The walls and roof were plastered with 

 . . the doors laid with planks rudely squared with 

 the hatchet, and the windows closed with parchment 

 of deerekin. The day, which, from the coldnes 

 the weather, require^ to be tempered before the fire 

 with hoi wat.T, froze as it was daubed on, and after- 

 wards cracked in such a manner as to admit the wind 

 from every quarter ; yet, compared with tb 

 our new habitation appeared comfortable : and having 

 filled our capacious clay-built chimney witb 



cheerful evening before the invigorating 

 blaze. The change was peculiarly beneficial to Pr. 

 Richardson, who having, in one of Ids excurei 

 incautiously laid down on the I f a hill 



when heated with w a severe in- 



