These they prefer for summer use, and I found that a number of the board-shanties were empty and the doors nailed up, their owners sensibly preferring to live in brush houses during the hot weather.
When I arrived at the agency the Indians were receiving their ration of flour, and, as they gathered in a great court-yard, I had an opportunity to examine them.

They are short, dark-skinned, generally ugly, stout, and were dressed in various styles, but always in such clothing as they get from the Government; not in their native costume.

Among several hundred women I saw not one even tolerably comely or conspicuously clean or neat; but I saw several men very well dressed.

They carried off their rations in baskets which they make, and which are water-tight.

The agent or superintendent, Mr.Burchard, very obligingly showed me through the camp, and answered my questions, and what follows of information I gained in this way.
The Indian shanties contain a fire-place, a bed-place, and sometimes a table; once I saw a small store-room; and on the walls hung dresses, shoes, fishing-nets, and other property of the occupants.