for its food and fur, but for the highly prized by them, not only

medicinal uses of the oil obtained.

The women made cloth

cultivated the fields of corn, beans ing of skins, prepared food,

and squashes, made mats, etc., but the men never labored until the field, when they remained with they became too old for ''the^women and made mats, wooden bowls and spoons, traps, nets, arrows, canoes, etc. Their houses were for the

most part built after one plan, They were formed by long, slender differing only in the set ground, in a straight line of two hickory saplings as rows, as far asunder they intended the width to be and conin lengths.

" The crushed corn is daily boiled to a pap which is called suppacn."

OF HUDSON'S RWER. tinued the rows as far as they intended the length to be.

The

poles were then bent towards each other in the form of an

arch and secured together, giving the appearance of a garden arbor. Split poles were then lathed up the sides and roof, and

over this was bark, lapped on the ends and edges, which was A hole was left in kept in its place by withes to the lathings. the roof for smoke to escape, and a single door of entrance

was

provided. Rarely exceeding twenty feet in width, these houses were sometimes a hundred and eighty yards long. " " In those places," says Van der Donck, they crowd a sur prising number of persons, and it is surprising to see them out From sixteen to eighteen families occupied one day."