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As for Will Atkins, who was now become a very industrious, useful, andsober fellow, he had made himself such a tent of basketwork as I believewas never seen; it was one hundred and twenty paces round on the outside, as I measured by my steps; the walls were as close worked as a basket, inpanels or squares of thirtytwo in number, and very strong, standingabout seven feet high; in the middle was another not above twentytwopaces round, but built stronger, being octagon in its form, and in theeight corners stood eight very strong posts; round the top of which helaid strong pieces, knit together with wooden pins, from which he raiseda pyramid for a handsome roof of eight rafters, joined together verywell, though he had no nails, and only a few iron spikes, which he madehimself, too, out of the old iron that I had left there. Indeed, thisfellow showed abundance of ingenuity in several things which he had noknowledge of: he made him a forge, with a pair of wooden bellows to blowthe fire; he made himself charcoal for his work; and he formed out of theiron crows a middling good anvil to hammer upon: in this manner he mademany things, but especially hooks, staples, and spikes, bolts and hinges. But to return to the house: after he had pitched the roof of hisinnermost tent, he worked it up between the rafters with basketwork, sofirm, and thatched that over again so ingeniously with ricestraw, andover that a large leaf of a tree, which covered the top, that his housewas as dry as if it had been tiled or slated. He owned, indeed, that thesavages had made the basketwork for him. The outer circuit was coveredas a leanto all round this inner apartment, and long rafters lay fromthe thirtytwo angles to the top posts of the inner house, being abouttwenty feet distant, so that there was a space like a walk within theouter wickerwall, and without the inner, near twenty feet wide.

The inner place he partitioned off with the same wickerwork, but muchfairer, and divided into six apartments, so that he had six rooms on afloor, and out of every one of these there was a door: first into theentry, or coming into the main tent, another door into the main tent, andanother door into the space or walk that was round it; so that walk wasalso divided into six equal parts, which served not only for a retreat, but to store up any necessaries which the family had occasion for. Thesesix spaces not taking up the whole circumference, what other apartmentsthe outer circle had were thus ordered: As soon as you were in at thedoor of the outer circle you had a short passage straight before you tothe door of the inner house; but on either side was a wicker partitionand a door in it, by which you went first into a large room orstorehouse, twenty feet wide and about thirty feet long, and through thatinto another not quite so long; so that in the outer circle were tenhandsome rooms, six of which were only to be come at through theapartments of the inner tent, and served as closets or retiring rooms tothe respective chambers of the inner circle; and four large warehouses, or barns, or what you please to call them, which went through oneanother, two on either hand of the passage, that led through the outerdoor to the inner tent. Such a piece of basketwork, I believe, wasnever seen in the world, nor a house or tent so neatly contrived, muchless so built. In this great beehive lived the three families, that isto say, Will Atkins and his companion; the third was killed, but his wiferemained with three , and the other two were not at all backwardto give the widow her full share of everything, I mean as to their corn, milk, grapes, &c. , and when they killed a , or found a turtle on theshore; so that they all lived well enough; though it was true they werenot so industrious as the other two, as has been observed already.