they happen to be united in his hands by
descent or conquest; but in such cases there is always a vicegerent
appointed in the dependent town, who is at once governor, judge,
chancellor, and has the same power and authority which the king himself
has in the town where he resides. This viceroy is obliged to pay his
principal some small tribute, as an acknowledgment of his submission, as
likewise to follow him to his wars whenever he is required.

Sec. 10. The manner the Indians have of building their houses is very
slight and cheap. When they would erect a wigwam, which is the Indian
name for a house, they stick saplings into the ground by one end, and
bend the other at the top, fastening them together by strings made of
fibrous roots, the rind of trees, or of the green wood of the white oak,
which will rive into thongs. The smallest sort of these cabins are
conical like a bee-hive; but the larger are built in an oblong form, and
both are covered with the bark of trees, which will rive off into great
flakes. Their windows are little holes left open for the passage of the
light, which in bad weather they stop with shutters of the same bark,
opening the leeward windows for air and light. Their chimney, as among
the true born Irish, is a little hole on the top of the house, to let
out the smoke, having no sort of funnel, or any thing within, to
confine the smoke from ranging through the whole roof of the cabin, if
the vent will not let it out fast enough. The fire is always made in the
middle of the cabin. Their door is a pendent mat, when they are near
home; but when they go abroad they barricade it with great logs of wood
set against the mat, which are sufficient to keep out wild beasts.
There's never more than one room in a house, except in some houses of
state, or religion, where the partition is made only by mats and loose
poles.

Sec. 11. Their houses, or cabins, as we call them, are by this ill method
of building continually smoky when they have fire in them; but to ease
that inconvenience, and to make the smoke less troublesome to their
eyes, they generally burn pine or lightwood, (that is, the fat knots of
dead pine,) the smoke of which does not offend the eyes, but smuts the
skin exceedingly, and is perhaps another occasion of the darkness of
their complexion.

Sec. 12. Their seats, like those in the eastern part of the world, are the
ground itself; and as the people of distinction amongst those used
carpets, so