Immediately within the door were sleeping places, ranged along the walls, like berths in a ship; and furnished with pallets of matting.

These extended along one half of the building; the remaining half was appropriated to the storing of dried fish.
The trading operations of the inhabitants of Wish-ram had given them a wider scope of information, and rendered their village a kind of headquarters of intelligence.

Mr.Hunt was able, therefore, to collect more distinct tidings concerning the settlement of Astoria and its affairs.

One of the inhabitants had been at the trading post established by David Stuart on the Oakinagan, and had picked up a few words of English there.

From him, Mr.Hunt gleaned various particulars about that establishment, as well as about the general concerns of the enterprise.
Others repeated the name of Mr.M'Kay, the partner who perished in the massacre on board of the Tonquin, and gave some account of that melancholy affair.