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colony is not continuously occupied this long. 

 A flood, fire, or the complete exhaustion of food 

 may compel him to move and seek a new home. 



In abandoning the Broken Tree pond, one 

 set of dwellers simply went up stream and took 

 possession of the pond which the landslide had 

 formed. Here they gathered supplies and dug 

 a hole or den in the bank but they built no 

 house. An underground tube or passageway 

 connected this den with the bottom of the pond. 



The remainder of the colonists started anew 

 about three hundred feet to the north of the 

 old pond. Here a dam about sixty feet long 

 was built, mostly of mud and turf excavated 

 from the area to be filled with water for their 

 pond. They commenced their work by digging 

 a trench and piling the material excavated on 

 the lower side the beginning of the dam. This 

 ditch was then widened and deepened until the 

 pond was completed. All excavated material was 

 placed upon the dam. 



Evidently the site for the house, as well as 

 for the pond, was deliberately selected. The 

 house was built in the pond alongside a spring 

 which in part supplied the pond with water. 

 The supply of winter food was stored in the 

 deep hole from which the material for the house 

 was excavated. The water from the spring 

 checked freezing near the house and the food- 



