The Swedish settlements on the Delaware, their history and relation to the Indians, Dutch and English, 1638-1664, with an account of the South, the New Sweden, and the American companies, and the efforts of Sweden to regain their colony . ted a littleto the side on one of the gable ends. To the right, as we comein, Is the fireplace and the oven, made from rough, heavy stones(the oven sometimes being clayed over and chalked on the frontside). On the floor near by, along the same wall, is the bedwith Its loose straw, covered with a sheepskin. The table is tothe left, behind which is a seat or be
The Swedish settlements on the Delaware, their history and relation to the Indians, Dutch and English, 1638-1664, with an account of the South, the New Sweden, and the American companies, and the efforts of Sweden to regain their colony . ted a littleto the side on one of the gable ends. To the right, as we comein, Is the fireplace and the oven, made from rough, heavy stones(the oven sometimes being clayed over and chalked on the frontside). On the floor near by, along the same wall, is the bedwith Its loose straw, covered with a sheepskin. The table is tothe left, behind which is a seat or bench nailed to the wall. Thespinning wheel, the chair made from the hollow trunk of atree, the birch-bark shoes, the pipe and the tobacco leaves forsmoking, the skin coat, the wooden plates and bowls, thecopper kettle and the fir-sticks for lighting purposes are allthere, hung up or arranged in their proper places. The bigroom Is gloomy even In the daytime, for only two little open-ings or windows in the walls admit Hght and the thicksmoke, which, when the fire Is burning, floats about above the*heads of the occupants, before it finds Its way out through the * Cf. Retzius, p. 54 ff.; Nordmann, p. 92 ff.; Nilsson, p. 60 ff.; Tlie exterior of a kula. showing- the entrance and lireplace. K.
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