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work. As foon as we landed, the Indian 

 conduced captain Cheap with him into a 

 wigwam ; but I was left to ftiift for myfelf. 



Thus left,I was for fome time at a lofs 

 what I had beft do ; for knowing that 

 in the variety of difpofitions obfervable 

 among the Indians, the furly and favage 

 temper is the moil prevalent, I had good 

 reafon to conclude, that if I obtruded 

 myfelf upon them, my reception would 

 be but indifferent. Neceffity, however, 

 put me upon the rifl^; I aepordingly 

 puilied into the next wigwam upon my 

 Jiands and knees ; for the entrance into 

 thefe kind of buildings is too low to 

 admit of any other manner of getting 

 into them. To give a fhort defcription 

 of thefe temporary houfes, called wig- 

 wams, may not be improper here, for 

 the fatisfa6tion of thofe who never faw 

 5my ; efpecially as they differ fome what 

 from thofe of North America, which are 



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