Indians & Cultural Encounters
Read Henry Timberlake's description of a town house at Chota
It is built in the form of a sugar loaf, and large enough to contain 500 persons, but extremely dark, having, besides the door, which is so narrow that but one at a time can pass, and that after much winding and turning, but one small aperture to let the smoak (smoke) out, which is so ill contrived, that most of it settles in the roof of the house.
Emissaries of Peace: The 1762 Cherokee & British Delegations Exhibit Catalog
Museum of the Cherokee Indian, 2006
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