ITS INTERIOR DESCRIBED. 451

and only 4 few iron spikes, which he made himself, too, out of the
old iron that I had left there; and indeed this fellow showed
abundance of ingenuity in several things, which he had no know-
ledge of. He made him a forge, with a pair of wooden bellows to
blow the fire; he made himself charcoal for his work; and he
formed out of one of the iron crows a middling good anvil to
hammer upon; in this manner he made many things, but especi-
ally hooks, staples and spikes, bolts and hinges. But to return to
the house: after he had pitched the roof of his innermost tent, he
worked it up between the rafters with basket-work, so firm, and
thatched that over again so ingeniously with rice-straw, and over
that a large leaf of a tree, which covered the top, that his house
was as dry as if it had been tiled or slated. Indeed he owned that
the savages made the basket-work for him.

The outer circuit was covered, as a lean-to, all round this inner
apartment, and long rafters lay from the two and thirty angles to
the top of the posts of the inner house, being about twenty feet
distance; so that there was a space like a walk within the outer
wicker-wall and without the inner, near twenty feet wide.

The inner place he partitioned off with the same wicker-work,
but much fairer, and divided it into six apartments, so that he had
six rooms on a floor; and out of every one of these there was a
door, first into the entry or coming into the main tent, and another
door into the space or walk that was round it; so that walk was
also divided into six equal parts, which served not only for retreat,
but to store up any necessaries which the family had occasion for.
These six spaces not taking up the whole circumference, what
other apartments the outer circle had were thus ordered :—as soon
as you were in at the door of the outer circle, you had a short
passage straight before you to the door of the inner house, but on
either side was a wicker partition, and a door in it, by which you
went, first, into a large room or store-house, twenty feet wide, and
about thirty feet long, and through that into another not quite so
_ long; so that in the outer circle were ten handsome rooms, six of
which were only to be come at through the apartments of the inner
tent, and served as closets or retiring rooms to the respective
chambers of the inner circle; and four large warehouses or barns,