Sentence:  But latterly they came in good numbers, and commenced a nightly system of annoyance by dancing their corroberies:nb.... Finding remonstrance of no avail, one evening, when they were all seated quietly at the <WSD>wurlie</WSD> ["footnote": Encampment.], I fired a charge of small shot into the midst of them, and retired to the hut: in the morning they had all disappeared. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A settlement made up of such shelters.