Stories of American explorers : a historical reader . me meant a journeynf from fifteen hundred to two thousand plain could not go at once, but the Indianswere too impatient to wait for him, so he followedtin-in. His party, consisting of ten Indians andan interpreter, went in two canoes by way of LakeI Inron. They followed its eastern coast for a hun-dred miles, and then a trail inland brought them toth< Huron country. Here he joined the largerparty that was waiting for him at the Huron town. Kadi of these was surrounded by a palisade,and within this there were long lodges of ba
Stories of American explorers : a historical reader . me meant a journeynf from fifteen hundred to two thousand plain could not go at once, but the Indianswere too impatient to wait for him, so he followedtin-in. His party, consisting of ten Indians andan interpreter, went in two canoes by way of LakeI Inron. They followed its eastern coast for a hun-dred miles, and then a trail inland brought them toth< Huron country. Here he joined the largerparty that was waiting for him at the Huron town. Kadi of these was surrounded by a palisade,and within this there were long lodges of bark,holding many families. Samuel dc Champlain 167 The war party gathered at the chief Huronvillage and set out in canoes. In crossing thecountry they stopped here and there to hunt andfish, because, as usual, they carried only meal withthem. When they were four days inarch fromthe Iroquois country, they hid their canoes andfollowed the trail until they arrived at the Iro-quois town. ^m^- M*f -J — •. An Iroquois long house The Iroquois, or Five Nations, were the fore-most Indians in war. Their towns were surroundedby palisades formed of tree-trunks thirty feet were sometimes as many as four rows of * these palisades, one within the other, and some-times tliev enclosed several acres of land. K Inside of these palisades were houses arranged Atncried)i Explorers ,,, order. These were called long houses anduere In»ni lilty to a hundred feet in length. Theywere made l>y driving upright poles into the groundami fastening these together by horizontal onesti(-,l t the upright ones. The sides and roof were made of bark. Thehouses were divided into rooms eight or ten feet\\ide, each room opening into a middle moms were plainly furnished, having bunksfor heds. and in each room one family lived. Corn,pumpkins, and squashes hung down from the roofin cheerful profusion, for the Indians in these forti-fied towns were tillers of the soil. In the centre of each g
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