A SMOKY ATMOSPHERE. 
very comfortable in respect to roomy house accommo» 
dation. Expense was not spared, large and very com- 
modious lines were erected, store walls, shingle roofs, 
doors and door frames, with locks and bolts. Pour or 
six men were located in a room 20 feet by 16. After 
some time, on making a visit of inspection, to our sur- 
prise and disgust we found that these men whom we 
supposed had been made so very comfortable in this 
modern erection had, inside this spacious room, erect- 
ed small huts ! So they had stripped the bark off 
some Ldrge dhn tree, cut in lengths of four or five 
feet, in breadth four to six inches. With these pieces 
ef bark they had constructed small rooms, or huts, 
inside the large room of the original building : in fact, 
(juite a small village inside the room. Sticks were laid 
longitudinally across the floor and five feet above it, 
and the strips of bark erected against it, and tied 
to them small passages were barked in, and off 
these were the huts, with a hole left to creep in ; 
through this hole two or three men would creep into 
their bark hut, where all was utter darkness, except 
from the glowing embers of a fire on the floor ; they 
would just be of sufficient length to allow the cooly 
to lie down at full stretch, and the breadth would be 
as much as to allow for a fire and cooking utensils- 
before which he would sib down on his hind legs en, 
joying the smoke, of which there was an abundant 
quantity. We are of opinion this love for a smoky 
atmosphere must in some measure, if not altogether, 
^ause what most people with general knowledge of 
the cooly character must have observed, that is, to 
use their own expression, ‘‘Can’t see in the dark.” 
Very like an Irish observation, but we must explain 
that it means a total want of all visual perception 
after nightfdl, or at all events very indistinct as 
compared with ours, and so it happens, that if necessi- 
ty requires that they be called out of their huts 
to proceed to execute any instructions, or any jour- 
ney however short, even to the bungalow, how rarely 
it is you see one man come, always two or three in 
company, and we iiave sometimes been not a little 
amused, perhaps irritated, at being disturbed at the 
bungalow, after nightfall, by the arrival of three or 
four men in great form, in front of the house. One 
stands forth, and says in a few words briefly ; “The 
pulping is finished all right.” The other two or three 
stand in the background until the speaker has done, 
and received the brief reply: “All right.” The 
speaker then fails hack into the main body, and they 
all walk off, together, as they arrived. Now the lines 
were quite a short distance off, and there was nothing 
to have hindered the responsible spokesman from 
