At each end was a door.

Along each side were ten or twelve stalls, in each of which lived a family, so that one house held twenty or more families.

Down the middle at regular intervals were fire pits where the food was cooked, the smoke escaping through holes in the roof.[1] [Footnote 1: Read Parkman's _Conspiracy of Pontiac_, Vol.

I., pp.

17, 18.] [Illustration: Buffalo-skin lodge] %59.