Your cabin may be made of Spanish cedar one and a half inches high,
one-eighth thick; make this wide enough to fit outside of the coping;
your sheer pattern will give the necessary curve to fit it to the deck.
The pilot-house is made separate, two inches high. Before putting the
cabin together, cut all openings, windows, etc., and mark with an awl
the panellings and plank lines. The doors are simply marked in, not cut
out.

Leave the front windows in the pilot-house unglazed, so as to serve as
ventilators for the lamp. The top of the cabin overlaps the sides
one-eighth of an inch all around. Cut a hatch in the cabin roof abaft
the steam-drum; this is intended to oil the engine through, and try the
steam-taps, without taking off the whole of the cabin. The cabin is kept
in place by the funnel, which slips off just above the roof. The slit in
the cabin top just back of the hatch is where your engine lever comes
through. The bitts, B, fore and aft, are made of Spanish cedar, running
through the deck to the hull. Your tiller may be made of steel wire
running through the head of the rudder-post, which is made of iron wire;
the man who makes your engine will do this for you.

[Illustration: MODEL OF A STEAM-YACHT.]

OLD TIMES IN THE COLONIES.

BY CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.

No. II.

CHAMPLAIN AND THE IROQUOIS.

It was a long while ago, in 1535, that Jacques Cartier, of France,
discovered the St. Lawrence River. He sailed up the mighty stream to the
Indian village of Hochelaga--a cluster of wigwams at the foot of a hill
which he named Mount Royal, but which time has changed to Montreal.
Seventy-four years rolled away before any other white man visited the
spot. In 1609, Samuel Champlain, an officer in the French navy, sailed
up the great river. He was a brave adventurer, who was ever taking long
looks ahead, and dreaming of what might be in the future--how the
unexplored wilderness of America might become a New France. He had built
houses at Quebec, and was on his way to discover what might be beyond.

He treated the Indians kindly, gave them presents, and made them his
friends. There were many tribes, but all the Indians east of the
Mississippi, and between Lake Superior and the Ohio, were divided into
two great families, the Algonquins and the Iroquois. The Indians along
the St. Lawrence, the Ottawa, and Lake Huron were Algonquins. The
Iroquois lived in New York. They were the Mohawks, Onondagas, Oneidas,
Sen