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of the houses precisely like those of the other southern tribes. 
The seats illustrated by Le Moyne were probably made in an identical 
manner and were in fact the same thing. 1 Their openwork construc- 
tion offered certain advantages, thus explained by a writer quoted 
by Gaff arel : 
They are often bothered by little flies, which they call in their language maringous 
and it is usually necessary for them to make fires in their houses, absolutely under 
their beds, in order to be freed from these vermin; and they say that they bite severely, 
and the part of the skin affected by their bite becomes like that of a leper. 2 
Spark seems to have seen a more solidly constructed bed, pro- 
vided with a wooden pillow: 
In the middest of this house is a hearth, where they make great fires all night, and 
they sleepe vpon certeine pieces of wood hewin in for the bowing of their backs, and 
another place made high for their heads, which they put one by another all along the 
walles on both sides. 3 
The narrative of De Gourgues records that Saturiwa seated him 
upon ' ' a seat of wood of lentisque, covered with moss, made of pur- 
pose like unto his own," 4 the rest sitting upon the ground. Perhaps 
these seats were of the three-legged variety used in the West Indies 
and throughout the Southern States generally. 
They made their fires in the usual Indian fashion, by means of 
two sticks. 3 
Le Moyne figures several different kinds of pots and baskets. 
Some of the former are of a size and shape suggestive of Creek sofki 
pots. In one picture a large pot with a round bottom is seen placed 
over a fire. There are also two or three earthen pots, some with short 
handles, a few flat dishes or pans, and in one place are two large gourds 
or earthen jugs which seem to be provided with strap handles and to be 
closed by means of small earthen jars placed over them, mouth down. 5 
Laudonniere saw in the house of one of the chiefs "a great vessel of 
earth made after a strange fashion, full of fountain water, clear, and 
very excellent." 6 "A little vessel of wood, " used as a cup, is spoken 
of in the same connection, 6 and Le Moyne mentions round bottles or 
wooden vessels in which they carried cassine. 7 
Among baskets we find the common southern carrying basket 
with a strap passing over the forehead of the bearer. Le Moyne 
figures sieves and fanners. In addition, however, there is a basket 
with two handles very much like our bushel basket, and several 
1 Le Moyne, Narrative, pis. 29, 38. 
n GaSarel, Hist. Floride francaise, pp. 461-462. 
3 Hakluyt, Voyages, m, p. 613. 
* Laudonniere, La Floride, p. 209. 
6 Le Moyne, Narrative, pi. 20. 
• Laudonniere, La Floride, p. 74; French, Hist. Colls. La., 1869, pp. 228-229. 
' Le Moyne, op. cit., p. 12 (ill.). 
