2364 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [VoL. VII, Arr. 112 
houses what I was going to’ do, and that they must pro- 
vide me with such labor as I may be in need of. They 
willingly gave up the whole house to me and my Manila 
muchacho or servant and agreed to aid me in every way 
possible. I told them that I only needed the basement and 
a place large enough for my sleeping cot in the house with 
them, and one laborer. Sr. Atega ordered my supplies trans- 
ported on the backs of carabaos or mud buffaloes. 
To arrange for a drying place, we had to take out 
most of the posts from under the house and brace it 
from the outside, One or two beside its open windward side 
were walled in with palm leaves and coarse grass. A few 
work benches were made of poles tied together with rattan or 
bejucos, and I was ready for work. My servant did all the dry- 
ing for me at the house while I preferred to haye a Manobo 
to accompany me in the field. 
When [ was in Cabadbaran, the presidente told me that 
they were trying to induce the Manobos to build permanent 
settlements, one at Bayabas, the place I had selected for 
my headquarters, and we agreed to use our mutual influence 
in that direction. A house was to be built for each of the 
half dozen families. The house in which I lived was a 
new one and a characteristic beauty from the outside and 
was wholesomely cool. Its dimensions were about twenty- 
five by thirty feet, and was about six feet above the 
ground. Usually they are much higher from the ground. 
Oue of them further in the woods was twenty feet 
above ground. The main posts are of hardwood poles, 
but they put in many other poles as posts and as cross 
braces from the ground to the floor. The floor is of split 
palma-brava, as they call it, and is composed of two parts. 
The central portion fifteen by twenty feet was about ten inches 
lower than the five feet wide rostrum portion which ex- 4 
tends clear around the house, except a square break in | 
one of the rear corners for the cooking place, and the middle - 
front portion for the stairway. The stairway in front of our 
house was of the better kind made out of round cross 
pieces. The poorer shacks have only a ten inch thick log 
notched for steps set up from the ground into the door way. 
Even our good house had this kind of steps at the rear of 
