eir quarters. Building a chimney to their
house. The Chief's contentment. He asks to marry Jane. Sidney's anger.
Strange discoveries. Set out on a hunting expedition. Discovery of wild
horses. The chief captures a colt. He presents it to Jane. The winter
sets in. A series of storms prevails. A deer hunt. They discover an
Indian woman and her papoose. They take her into camp and provide for
her. Her inexpressible thanks for her deliverance.

The children were filled with wonder and astonishment at the
magnificence as well as the evident antiquity of the ruins, and spent
many days of actual pleasure wandering among them. They had read of
similar remains having been found in Europe; but these were rendered
vague in outline by distance, and meagre in description by their utter
impossibility to comprehend the actual appearance of things, the like
of which they had never seen. These were more tangible. They saw and
felt them; ascended and descended the symmetrical steps; ran their
fingers along the seams of wonderful cement that bound the pile in its
place like ribs of iron; drank water from a duct where a thousand years
ago others had drank, but of what nation, race or name they knew not.
Oblivion with her sombre mantle had closed over them, to remain, until
a mind capable of grasping the past shall arise, and with its giant
intellect give back the forgotten alphabet--the key that shall open to
us the rise, progress and fall of a nation, the relics of whose once
powerful but unknown people may be found over the whole continent.

They covered the floor of the room they had cleared with dried skins,
laying them with the hairy side up, thus making a comfortable carpet;
large blocks of stone were piled at intervals around the rooms for
seats, and these were also covered with soft skins, making very
passable but immovable seats. A table was built by setting four blocks
of stone up endwise in the centre of the room and laying one large,
smooth, thin slab on its top, around which were placed five movable
seats to be used while eating.

What annoyed them greatly was, there was no way of warming the room,
and as the weather now was becoming cold, they found it a great
discomfort, as the sun could not penetrate the thick stone walls to dry
the dampness that gathered on them. They were quite puzzled to know how
they were to be comfortable in that place without a fire, there being
no place in which to build one. There were two windo