. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . me there, because of the caves beingfilled with women and girls during every minute of theday, until one would have believed that we of Phila-delphia had nothing better with which to occupyour time. I may as well set it down here that when our WilliamPenn arrived, he gave to this first baby a piece of landnear that street which was called Crown. HOW THE INDIANS LIVE I would that I might describe to you the Indianswhom we found living near about the land which wasset apart for our city, in such manner that you wouldbe able to picture them to
. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . me there, because of the caves beingfilled with women and girls during every minute of theday, until one would have believed that we of Phila-delphia had nothing better with which to occupyour time. I may as well set it down here that when our WilliamPenn arrived, he gave to this first baby a piece of landnear that street which was called Crown. HOW THE INDIANS LIVE I would that I might describe to you the Indianswhom we found living near about the land which wasset apart for our city, in such manner that you wouldbe able to picture them to yourself, for they were muchlike neighbors to us during the days when Philadelphiawas little more than a clearing in the wilderness. As I have said, Jethro and I were often among them, HOW THE INDIANS LIVE and came to be acquainted with half a dozen or moreuntil they were to us really friends. I have heard those who have traveled much in thisland of America describe the villages which the peopleof Boston, or of Jamestowrn, saw when they first came. to this country, and therefore it is that I know ourIndians lived in a different manner from the savagesin those sections. The villages near us were made of huts, hardly higherthan a man would stand, and built by setting polesinto the ground until a frame-work had been madefive or six feet wide, and from ten to twelve feet was covered with the bark of trees, or of mats STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA 5 66 STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA ^ woven from coarse dried grass, with a mat hanging atone end to serve as door. Inside these, in the winter, a fire is built, and thesmoke passes out through a hole left in the roof. Asfor beds, they heap up reeds or grass, covering thewhole with skins of animals, and thus are as com-fortable while sleeping, as are we English people onour beds of feathers. When they are in their own village, it seems as ifthe savages are continually burning that Indian weedcalled tobacco, and how they contrive to get anypl
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