Accidents > Dangers of the deep, or, Narratives of shipwreck and adventure at sea

IDO INDIAN HOSPITADITT.
hands and knees; for the entrance into these
kind of buildings is too low to admit of any
other manner of getting into them. To give
a short description of these temporary houses,
called wigwams, may not be improper here,
for the satisfaction of those who never saw
any ; especially as they differ somewhat from
those of North America, which are more ge¬
nerally known from the numerous accounts
of that country.
When the Indians of this part of the world
nave occasion to stop any where in their ram¬
bles, if it be only for a night or two, the men,
who take this business upon them, while the
women are employed in much more labori¬
ous offices, such as diving in the sea for sea-
eggs, and searching the rocks for shell-fish,
getting fuel, &c. repair to the woods, and
cutting a sufficient number of tall, straight
branches, fix them in an irregular kind of circle,
of uncertain dimensions; which having done,
they bend the extremities of these branches
so as to meet in a centre at top, where they
bind them by a kind of w’oodbine, called sup¬
ple-jack, which they split by holding it in
their teeth. This frame or skeleton of a hut,
is made tight against the weather with a co-