Others built rude huts and began clearing away the forest.

They afterwards built rude dwellings for themselves, which did not, however, afford them much protection in bad weather.

Tents were pitched securely, and, feeling that they were to stay here a long time many of the soldiers built rude log cabins.

Leaving their homes, they gathered together here and there and built rude stockade forts, in which they lived, with all their women and children.

They built rude huts along the shores of Anticosti, where, at that day, the bison, it is said, could be seen wallowing in the sands.