ws that extended
from the floor five feet, up which, probably, had been frames, that
were once filled with some perishable material, but of which not a
vestige now remained. These openings they always closed at night by
hanging skins before them, which were taken down in the morning to let
the light in. The door-way that led into the room, was entirely
destitute of any vestige of a door, although they found grooves cut in
the blocks of stone that ran along the side on which a door had been
hung. This door-way opened into a long hall, that ran through the house
from the front portal to the back--the doors that led into the four
rooms of which the temple was composed, opening on the inside. This
hall, which was truly a magnificent one, was thirty-five feet wide, and
fifty long, forty feet high, tapering towards the centre overhead, in a
lofty dome.

"We must have a fire," said the trapper, one morning, after an
unusually frosty night. "This is too cold. Can't we build one in the
hall, chief?"

"The smoke will suffocate us; we could not stay in doors with it," said
Whirlwind.

"Why don't you build it in one of the windows? the smoke could then go
out, while much of the heat would come in," said Edward.

"Better yet," said Sidney: "build a chimney by one of the windows, then
all the smoke will go out, and all the heat come in."

"You have it exactly," said the trapper. "I wonder we did not think of
it before. What say you, chief--shall we have the chimney?"

The chief, not only assenting, but entering with alacrity into the
project, the whole party went to work to collect the material, of which
there was plenty, but as the blocks were nearly all large ones that lay
round them, they had to bring them from the mass of ruins by the river,
which was of smaller material, and which they could handle to better
advantage. They worked hard all that day, Sidney standing by quite
uneasy, because they would not allow him to help. The next morning they
mixed some mud and clay for mortar, and commenced laying up the
chimney, and succeeded by night in finishing a very serviceable, though
not a very beautiful one. They found, on building a fire in it, that it
worked to a charm, filling the room with a genial warmth and cheerful
light, while it carried away all the smoke.

They had gathered some twenty bushels of fruit, that tasted like our
apples, but resembled a pear in shape and color, which was very hard
and tough, not fit to e