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trouble, they generally take it with 

 them when they remove, putting it at 

 the bottom of their canoes : the reft of 

 ihe wigwam they leave ftaBding. The 

 fire is made in the middle of the wig- 

 wam, round which they fit upon boughs j 

 and as there is no v^nt for the fmoke, 

 befides the door- way, which is very low, 

 except through fome crevices, which 

 cannot eafily be flopped, they are not a 

 little incommoded on that account ; and 

 the eyes of fome of them are much af«- 

 fecled by it. 



But to return : in this wigwam, into 

 which I took the liberty to introduce 

 myfelf, I found only two women, who, 

 upon firft feeing a figure they were not 

 accuftomed to, and fuch a figure too as 

 I then made, were ftruck with aftonifli- 

 ment. They were fitting by a fire, to 

 which I approached without any apo^ 

 logy. However inclined I might have 

 been to make one, my ignorance of their 



language 



