England some fine specimens in the shape of paddles, walking-sticks, and axe handles, which are now in the British Museum.

The houses of this race are curious: they are built of mud, and consist of two rooms, the front one about seven feet square, and the back one — which is the main part of the house — of circular shape and about ten feet in diameter. The entire hut is thatched, the circular portion having a beehive roof, and the square part a lean-to. In the interior were always twenty or thirty balks of timber thickly covered with soot. Some of these were evidently used as beds, but for what the others served I could never discover, though the general idea in the caravan was that they were used for forming platforms, on which to smoke fish or flesh.

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