DESCRIPTION OF HUTS. 



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islands to the westward are overrun. To the stout 

 uprig'hts are lashed transverse bars supporting' 

 three long* parallel timbers running" the whole 

 leng'th of the floor ; on these seven or eig'ht 

 transverse poles are laid^ crossed by about a dozen 

 longitudinal and slighter ones^ on which a flooring* 

 of long- strips of the outer wood of the cocoa-nut 

 tree is laid across. After penetrating the floor^ the 

 main posts rise ^we feet higher^ where they are 

 connected at top by others as tie-beams^ which cross 

 them^ and project a little further to sustain the two 

 lateral of the ^ve long-itudinal supports of the roof, 

 which^ at the g'able ends, are further secured by 

 other tie-beams. On the two central cross-bars also 

 is laid a platform running* one half the leng'th of 

 the hut, floored on one side, forming' a partial upper 



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