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Title: Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886
Subjects: Joint Boundary Commission (United States and Mexico) Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton & Company
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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othirty feet in diameter, the interior usually excavatedabout three feet below the surface of the ground.Within this circle posts are planted, forked at the top,upon which rest poles reaching from one to the other.The spaces between the posts are filled in with sticksor tules, against which the earth is firmly banked upoutside. The roofs are dome-shaped, and, in thesmaller houses, supported by a single post in the cen-tre, on the forked top of which rest two main rafters,with their outer ends planted in the ground. Fromthese are stretched stout poles, about a foot apart andthatched with sticks and tules, or rushes closely inter-woven, and covered with a solidly pressed layer ofearth about a foot thick, making a roof completelywater proof in the heaviest rains. In some villagesthe houses have but one aperture, which is on the topof the roof, and serves for both door and chimney.This is entered by a sort of rude ladder, or by notchescut in the centre-post. Others have an ojDening at the
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AND RETURN TO SAN FRANCISCO. 31 side, so small as not to be entered except by crawlingon the hands and knees. Around the sides of theinterior are wide shelves, formed of poles and rushesresting on forked posts, which serve for beds.

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