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62, a story-and-a-half erection of rough-hewn timbers enclosed in a palisaded  fort, wooden buildings were scarce, since the  Indians clung to their own style of dwelling. Some half-hundred wigwams composed the village, although not all were then occupied. There were many neat gardens, and fruit-trees abounded. Altogether the village looked prosperous and contented as David came  toward it that June morning. The streets were given over chiefly to the children, it  seemed, and these used them as playgrounds. At the door of a wigwam a squaw sat here and there at some labor, but industry was  not a notable feature of the village. Save that a dog barked at him, David’s arrival  went unchallenged, and he crossed the long  footbridge and sought the palisade where he  thought to find Pikot at his duties of teaching the younger men and women. A lodge rather more pretentious than the rest was the  residence of the sachem Waban, a Nipmuck  who had lived previously at Nonantum and  who had become the most prominent of Master Eliot’s disciples and, it is thought, the  most earnest. Waban had married a daughter of the famous Tahattawan, sachem of the country about the Concord River, him-