Stone pavements around the club-honse serve as a dancing 

 place for the natives who are very fond of this pastime. Trees are 

 also planted around the building, and lots of stones, some 80 cm. 

 high, stand obliquely like so many tombstones. These reclining 

 stones serve as an immovable chair when natives rest their back 

 against them (PI. XXIII, fig. 2). In resting they sit on a piece 

 of bark of the betel-nut palm (?) w^iich they usually carry with 

 them. Kubary^ gives a detailed account of the buildings in Yap. 

 A comparative study of the club-house in the West Carolines and 

 other South Sea Islands is made toward the end of the paragraphs 

 devoted to Palau. 



II. Palau. 



There are also various kinds of buildings in Palau, such as 

 the dwelling-house, kitchen-shed, club-house, canoe-shed, and shrine. 

 It may be noted that, though the one last mentioned is only a 

 small building, no such building is found in Yap ; while the largest 

 building in both Palau and Yap is the club-house, which is 

 certainly a " sight " in the w^ay o£ architecture in Micronesia. 



I. Dwellings. — The size of the dwelling-house is generally 

 8 by 4 m., with a bamboo or wooden floor raised 75 to 90 cm. 

 above ground. The roof is usually thatched with leaves of the 

 nipa palm {Nipa fruticans), while the walls consist of piles of 

 bamboos, each rolled up in the same leaves. Bamboo screens 

 sometimes form part of the walls. The entrance is usually made 

 on the longer side of the house, and is about 1*80 m. high and 

 1-20 m. wide. As the house has a number of such entrances, each 

 1'20 m. apart from the other, it is light inside the building unlike 



1 J. S. Kubary, " Ethnographische Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Karolinen Archipels," pp, 29- 

 42; Taf. II VII. 



