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Ef, not only assenting, but entering with alacrity into the project, the
whole party went to work to collect the material, of which there was
plenty, but as the blocks were nearly all large ones that lay round
them, they had to bring them from the mass of ruins by the river, which
was of smaller material, and which they could handle to better
advantage. They worked hard all that day, Sidney standing by quite
uneasy, because they would not allow him to help. The next morning they
mixed some mud and clay for mortar, and commenced laying up the chimney,
and succeeded by night in finishing a very serviceable, though not a
very beautiful one. They found, on building a fire in it, that it worked
to a charm, filling the room with a genial warmth and cheerful light,
while it carried away all the smoke. They had gathered some twenty
bushels of fruit, that tasted like our apples, but resembled a pear in
shape and color, which was very hard and tough, not fit to eat then, but
which, the chief said, would be good in midwinter. They had taken the
precaution to gather them by his advice--he having made some large
baskets of the pliable twigs of willow, in which they were conveyed from
the trees to the temple, where they were deposited in the room they
occupied. "The fire will injure them," said the chief. "We must put them
in another room in order to save them." "There is one adjoining us, that
opens like ours from the hall. We can clear out that as we did this, and
make it a store house. We shall need some place to keep our fruit and
nuts in, which it is time now to gather, and also our dried venison,"
said the trapper. "It is best to make ourselves as comfortable as we can
while here, for as the winter will soon be on us, nothing but an
especial providence can get us out of the scrape we are in, until the
weather is warm enough for us to travel aga