The lodge was shaped like a cone, sixty feet in diameter at the base and tapering towards the top.

The poles of which it was constructed were forty-five feet long.

The interior was strangely decorated, the tops of the poles being ornamented with eagles' feathers, and from the centre hung a stuffed buffalo-hide.

A buffalo's head and other trophies of the chase were disposed about the wigwam.

The valley, as the explorers descended the river, was very picturesque and wonderful.