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appropriated entirely to the women and children
and may be considered as the Harem of the Forest.
The floor was carpeted with the tender branches
of the pine on which the ladies reposed as soundly
as if on Ottomens of the softest texture, no inconvenience
being known or felt from the lowness of the
roof or the want of their luxury, where the ladies never
think of standing upright when within or
being in any other position than that of sitting
or laying.

[image- Wigwam with figure, children, fire, and kettle].

Indian Indigenous Wigwam.

On the open side of this shed and joining to
it was a space about four feet square enclosed by bushes.
In the centre hung an iron kettle, suspended over the fire
by means of triangular sticks somewhat after the