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the chiefs that may arrive at the fort. The chiefs only are 

 admitted within the walls ; not that any danger is appre- 

 hended now from them, but to prevent any trouble that 

 might possibly occur were numbers permitted to enter. 

 The house is of Cottonwood logs, with a plank roof cov- 

 ered with earth, chimneys of mud, two windows and 

 doors in the Bourgeois's room, one each in the other 

 rooms. The interior is ceiled and walled with plank. In 

 the Bourgeois's room are two doors made of pine plank 

 which was sawed in the Rocky Mountains. The house is 

 75 by 20 ft. Most of the buildings in the fort are made 

 in a similar manner. Above the three rooms described is 

 a garret extending the whole length of the building. 

 About three feet back of this edifice is the kitchen, a 

 neat building twenty feet square, in which everything be- 

 longing to this most important and useful apartment is 

 to be found, always in good order, clean and bright, as it 

 is the imperative duty of the cook, or person in charge, to 

 have all connected with this department in perfect order. 

 From this room all persons are excluded, unless duty or 

 business requires them to be there. Adjoining this, on the 

 same line north, is a house of the same dimensions as the 

 kitchen, which is used for salting and preserving tongues, 

 one of the delicacies of the civilized world ; when not thus 

 used it answers the purpose of a wash-house. In these 

 buildings are bedrooms occupied by the persons having 

 charge of these departments. Extending along the west 

 line of pickets, and about three feet from them, leaving a 

 space between the range and the Bourgeois's house is a line 

 of buildings divided in four apartments ; one used for a 

 blacksmith's and tinner's shop, another for a carpenter's 

 shop, one for the tailor, and the other for the men. In 

 the square formed by the pickets and ends of the Bour- 

 geois's and men's houses, is a yard for sawing timber, a 

 quantity of which is necessarily required about the fort. 

 A house running from the south bastion to the passage, 



