The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 2 Page: 145 of 268
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JOURNEYS OF
partition to separate it from the rest. However,
they have nothing in common besides
the fire, which is in the midst of the hut, and
never goes out. It is made of great trees,
the ends whereof are laid together, so that
when once lighted it lasts a long time, and
the first comer takes care to keep it up.
The cottages are round at the top, after
the manner of a bee-hive or a rick of hay.
Some of them are sixty feet diameter. In
order to build them they plant trees as thick
as a man's thigh, tall and straight, and placing
them in a circle and joining the tops together
from the dome or round top; then
they lash and cover them with weeds. When
they remove their dwellings they generally
burn the cottages they leave and build new
on the ground they design to inhabit.
Their moveables are some bullocks' hides
and goats' skins, well cured; some mats,
close wove, wherewith they adorn their huts,
and some earthen vessels, which they are
very skillful at making, and wherein they
boil their flesh or roots, or sagamise, which,
as has been said, is their pottage. They
have also some small baskets made of canes,
serving to put in their fruit and other provisions.
Their beds are made of canes
raised two or three feet above the ground,
handsomely fitted with mats and bullocks'
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Cox, Isaac Joslin. The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 2, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6103/m1/145/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .