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tended exclusively as shelter fur canoes, there being large separate 

 buildings provided as meeting-places for young men. Therefore, 

 canoe-houses in the case of Yap and Palau are difterent from 

 those in Truk, Avhere they are intended for a double purpose as 

 above noted. In former days, however, families took shelter in 

 these buildings when danger threatened. We were told that there 

 are also houses on hill tops, which are used as meeting-places. 

 Not only Truk but Ponapé possesses such communal buildings 

 where the natives liold frequent meetings. It is not likely, how- 

 ever, that in Ponapé they are houses for young men, though this 

 is the case in the West Caroline group. 



II. PONAI'É. 



The dwellings of tlio natives in Jokaj, Ponapé, who are settlors 

 from Mokil and Pingelap, are extremely primitive in structure, 

 though these are furnished with floors, which is not the case with 

 the houses in Truk. The floors, raised from 75 to 90 cm. above 

 ground, are made up of dozens of trunks of trees. On these 

 floors mats are laid. The roofs are thatched with leaves of coco- 

 nut trees or ivory-nut trees. It is dusky inside, since tlie caves 

 hang very low. The houses consist of only one room, 5 by 



3 m. in size. The dwellings of settlers from Pingelap are built 

 more or less in a cluster and along a road ; they form a regular 

 village, as travellers can see even from the other side of the 

 lagoon (PI. XIV). 



The settlers from the two islands mentioned above employ 

 l)rooms made of leafstalks of coco-nut tree some ~)0 cm. long. fSuch 

 brooms are also said to be in use among; the other inhabitants. 



