46 THE YUROK. 
it, barely large enough to admit the passage of an Indian on all-fours. 
The cabin being built entirely of wood and not thatched, accounts partly 
for the wholesome-looking eyes of the Klamath tribes, compared with the 
odious purblind optics often seen in the thatched and unyentilated wig- 
wams farther south. A space in front of the cabin is kept clean-swept, 
and is frequently paved with cobbles, with a larger one placed each side of 
the door-holes; and on this pavement the squaws sit, weaving baskets, and 
spinning no end of tattle. 
Though they have not the American’s all-day industry, both these Kla- 
math tribes are job-thrifty, and contrive to have a considerable amount of 
money by them. [or instance, the trading-post at Klamath Bluffs alone sold 
in 1871, over $3,000 worth of merchandise, though there were only about six 
miners among their customers. Here is a significant item: The proprietor 
said he sold over 700 pounds of soap annually to the Yurok alone. I often 
peeped into their cabins, and seldom failed to see there wheaten bread, coffee, 
matches, bacon, and a very considerable wardrobe hanging in the smoky 
attic. They are more generally dressed in complete civilized suits, and 
more generally ride on horseback, than any others, except the Mission 
Indians. 
How do they get the money to procure these things? They mine a 
little, drive pack-trains a good deal, transport goods and passengers on the 
river, make and sell canoes, whipsaw lumber for the miners, fetch and carry 
about the mining camps, go over to Scott Valley and hire themselves out 
on the farms in the summer, ete. These Indians are enterprising; they push 
out from their native valley. You will find them in Crescent City, Trin- 
idad, and Areata, working in the saw-mills, on the Hupa reservation, 
etc. When we remember that they have learned all these things by imi- 
tation, having never been on a reservation, it is no little to their credit. 
The hills skirting the Klamath are very steep and mountain-high, the 
north side being open and fern-grown, and most of the villages are on this 
north side to get the sunshine in winter, planted thick along the bends 
wherever they can find a little level space. These smoke-blackened ham- 
lets reminded me continually of the villages in Canton Valais, only the 
Indian cabin has but one story. It is very much like a chalet, and they 
