A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . * The Iroquois tribes of Central New York had a more developedagriculture. Tlie French, who invaded their country in 1696, foundfields of maize which extended a league from tlie villages. GeneralSullivan, in his invasion in 1779, found large apple and peacLorchards, and abundant stores of corn, beans, and squashes. 30 DISCOVERY AND INHABITANTS OF AMERICA. mats. Their fires were made in clay or stone pits in thefloor, and the smoke escaped through a hole in the other forms of dwellings were used. The Iroqu
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . * The Iroquois tribes of Central New York had a more developedagriculture. Tlie French, who invaded their country in 1696, foundfields of maize which extended a league from tlie villages. GeneralSullivan, in his invasion in 1779, found large apple and peacLorchards, and abundant stores of corn, beans, and squashes. 30 DISCOVERY AND INHABITANTS OF AMERICA. mats. Their fires were made in clay or stone pits in thefloor, and the smoke escaped through a hole in the other forms of dwellings were used. The Iroquoistribes had houses several hundred feet long, and divided into many apartments or residencesby partitions. Tliey were made offramework covered with bark, andsometimes held from thirty to fiftyfamilies. Some of the Southern In-dians had circular dwellings with par-. Indian Pottery. titions made of mats and running from the outer wall to the apartment thus made was the home of a family. Furniture and Utensils.—The dwellings had little furni-ture, the Indians living mostly in the open air. Mats andskins served for bedding and the ground usually for seatsand tables. For cooking purposes some tribes used woodenvessels, hollowed out by burning and scraping. They filledthese vessels with water and threwin stones heated in their fires tillthe water boiled. Then the foodwas dropped in to cook in the boil-ing water. Baskets made of willow,very closely woven, were used inthe same way. Some tribes hadvessels of earthenware, others ofhollowed out soapstone. Clothing-.—The winter clothingof the red men was mostly made of deer-skin. In summer they wore very little their feet they wore moccasins, or shoes made of buck-skin, which were very soft and pliable and enabled them towalk noiselessly. Some tribes wove coarse cloth, out of KAL
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