In Wish-ram, on the contrary, the houses were built of wood, with long sloping roofs.

The floor was sunk about six feet below the surface of the ground, with a low door at the gable end, extremely narrow, and partly sunk.

Through this it was necessary to crawl and then to descend a short ladder.

This inconvenient entrance was probably for the purpose of defense; there were loop-holes also under the eaves, apparently for the discharge of arrows.

The houses were large, generally containing two or three families.