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The cabbins of the great village of the Nat- 

 chez, the only one I have feen, are in the form of 

 fquare pavilions, very low, and without windows. 

 Their roofs are rounded pretty much in the fame 

 manner as an oven. Moft of them are covered 

 with the leaves and ftraw of maiz. Some of them 

 are built of a fort of mud, which feemed tolera- 

 bly good, and is covered outfide and infide with 

 very thin mats. That of the great chief is rough- 

 caft very handfomely in the infide : it is like ways 

 larger and higher than the reft, being placed in a 

 more elevated fituation, and has no cabbins adjoin- 

 ing to it. It fronts a large fquare, which is none 

 of the moft regular, and looks to the north. All 

 the moveables I found in it were a bed of planks 

 very narrow, and raifed about two or three feet 

 from the ground ; probably when the chief lies 

 down he fpreads over it a matt, or the fkin of fome 

 animal. 



There was not a foul in the village, all of them 

 having gone to a neighbouring village, where 

 there was a feftival. All their doors were open* 

 but there was not any thing to be feared from 

 thieves, as nothing remained but the four walls. 

 Thefe cabbins have no vent for the fmoke, not- 

 withstanding thofe into which I entered were tole- 

 rably white. The temple ftands at the fide of the 

 chief's cabbin, facing the eaft, and at the extre-. 

 mity of the fquare. It is built of the fame mate- 

 rials with the cabbins, but of a different Ihape* 

 being an oblong fquare, forty feet in length, and 

 twenty in breadth, with a very fimple roof, in the 

 fame form as ours. At each extremity there is 

 fomething like a weather-cock of wood, which 

 has a very coarfe refemblance of an eagle. 



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