The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.
From Francis Parkman
Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.
A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand.
We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below.
Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.
A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas.
America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.
Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.
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