Beadle's New Dime Novels: The Specter Chief — page 41: what you’re looking at

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wes oe pp PoP TOF ‘Ss ; ‘ * =a 4 ~ a 2s eS _ “sity of fortune manifested itself in the houses of the inhah- itants. Oue of the buildings, from its great extent and peculiarity of structure, was evidently preserved for some purpose of higher importance than individual residence. _- It covered a space of more than one hundred feet ia length, and sixty in breadth, and was constructed of split poles, to which bark was attached in the manner above mentioned. Its location was in the middle of the town, the private lodges being scattered around it without any attempt at preserving the order of streets. This was Chil- licothe, the chief settlement of the Shawano tribe, Tuc reader must be careful not to confound it with a town of the same name on a branch of the Little Miami, He may be easily led into error, as there was no less than four LIn- dian towns of that name, of which the one on the branch of Little Miami has become most generally known through the perilous adventures of Boone and his companions, a few years later. But the Chilicothe which was the. chief . Seat of the Shawanos at the time of which we are writing, was on the fork of Point River, a branch of the Sclota: and it continued to be the head couucil-place, uatil after the battle of Point-Pleasant. The open space, or plain, at one side of which the town was built, was cultivated as the cornfield of the inhah- itants, who relied for their sustenance upon agriculture, %«s - well as well as upon hunting, trapping or fishing. North- _ ward were the remains of an ancient fortification, one of those relics of an extinct people, to which reference has -_ , already been made. wera. Ma i, ® Path a bel! -, - [a s - apartments, each of which might measure some twenty feet square. The furniture of these was in keeping wiih _ bandles of long grass, skilfully tied together, and covered 2 with or bear-skins—dresses of deer-skin, decorate. A . “with bea: anil quills, hanging about the sides of the Sve gh. i Smee -_ 4 Pe te ‘ : A IIE PUANTOM CHIEF. a of the owners; here, as in mere civilized towns, a d ver- | _ In the interior of a house, of what we may style the bet- - ___ ter class, a partition had been fixed, dividing it into two _ the habits of the principal occupants. Beds made of small _ “2 ees of the ehas2, or for Aching--ra.dé ee z