CURIOUS HOMES 

 AND THEIR TENANTS. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



COMMUNAL DWELLINGS, AND THOSE WHO INHABIT THEM. 



The Indians upon tlie eastern coast of North 

 America, as the first European settlers found them, 

 had, as we well know, no cities, no roads, and no build- 

 ings, unless the rude temporary shelter of bark wig- 

 wams can be so called. They had little more real 

 government than a herd of beasts. They dressed in 

 skins, because they could not weave cloth, and their 

 arrows had heads of flint, because the red men of 

 the forest did not know how to make them of metal. 

 Their plow Was the bough of a tree or a clamshell, 

 and they had no horses, cows, or any domestic animals 

 except their dogs. Of books or reading or writing 

 they knew nothing. At the same time other tribes 

 far in the Southwest lived in villages, tilled the land, 

 made pottery and cloth, and were in every respect far 

 more civilized. They are called Pueblo Indians, be- 

 cause they lived in pueblos, or villages consisting of 

 single houses. One of these huge structures of mud 

 or stone contained thousands of tenants^ a town or 

 city in a single house. 



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