8 The Anciciif Hawaiian House. 



The Houses or dwellings of these People are admirably calculated for the continual warmth 

 of the Climate ; they do not build them in Towns or Villages, but seperate each from the other, and 

 always in the Woods, and are without walls, so that the air, cooled by the shade of the Trees, has 

 free access in whatever direction it happens to blow. No country can boast of more delightful walks 

 than this ; the whole Plains where the natives reside are covered with groves of Bread Fruit and 

 Cocoa Nut Trees, without underwood, and intersected in all directions by the Paths which go from 

 House to House, so that nothing can be more grateful in a Climate where the sun hath so powerful 



FU;. 5. TAIilTIAN chief's HOU.SR.' 



an influence. They are generally built in form of an Oblong square, the Roofs are supported by 

 3 Rows of Pillars or Posts, and neatly covered with Thatch made of Palm leaves. A middle-siz'd 

 house is about 24 ft. by 12, extream heigth about 8 or g, and heigth of the lives 3J2 or 4. The floors 

 are cover'd some inches deep with Hay, upon which, here and there, lay matts for the convenience 

 of sitting down ; few houses has more than one Stool, which is used only by the Master of the family. 

 [See Fig. 8.] 



In their houses are no rooms or Partitions, but they all huddle and vSleep together ; yet in this 

 they generally observe some order, the Married people laying by themselves, and the unmarried each 

 sex by themselves, at some distance from each other. Many of the Earcs or Chiefs are more private, 

 having small movable houses in which they Sleep, man and Wife, which, when they go by Water 

 from place to place, are tied upon their canoes ; the.se have walls made of Cocoa-Nut leaves, etc. 

 I have sai I that the houses are without walls, but this is only to be understood in general, for many 



opiate VI of Parkinsoii'.s Journal. 



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