In the centre of each of these long houses there was a fireplace where the cooking for the whole of the house inhabitants was done.

Each family had its own room, but each house probably contained five families.

Almost the only furniture, except cooking pots, was mats on which the people sat and slept.

The food of the people consisted, besides fish and the flesh of beavers and deer, of maize and beans.

Cartier at once recognized the maize or Indian corn as the same grain ("a large millet") as that which he had seen in Brazil.
He gives a description of how they made the maize into bread (or rather "dampers", "ashcakes"); but as this is not altogether clear, it is better to combine it with Champlain's description, written a good many years later, but still at a time when the Hurons were unaffected by the white man's civilization.