leisy, 12,

almost entirely of skin.

longues d’environ cinquante pas au plus
chacune, et douze ou quinze pas de large,
toutes faites de bois, couvertes et garnies
de grandes é€corces et pelures des dits bois
aussi larges que tables, bien cousues arti-
ficiellement selon leur mode; et par dedans
icelles il y a plusieurs aires et chambres;

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make to themselves large communal houses like those of the heterogeneous
Pacific tribes, while, under its impulsion, the Chilcotins copied the subterra-
nean huts prevailing among the coterminous Shushwaps, and the northern-

most Loucheux aped the Eskimos by living in tent Shaped like the hyper-

borean jgloit. But
these last two types
are winter habita-
tions, and we are so
far concerned only
with summer resi-
dences.

However, before
proceeding further,
we may remark that
the same spirit of
emulation someti-
mes manifests itself
in a rather odd man-
ner. Witness the te-

pee of our illustration, with the door of wooden planks closing an habitation

Summer Hottses of the Western Dénés.

We read in the relation of the second voyage of Jacques Cartier with
regard to Hochelaga: “Il y a dans cette ville environ cinquante maisons,

”

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ne en