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The Ancient Haiuaiian House. 



The Houses of these People are better calculated for a Cold than a Hot Climate ; they are built 

 low aad in the form of an oblong squire. The frainiug is of wood or small sticks, and the sides and 

 Covering of thatch made of long Grass. The door is generally at one end , and no bigger than to 

 admit of a mm to Creep in and out ; just within the door is the fireplace, and over the door, or on 

 one side, is a small hole to let out the Smoke. These houses are twenty or thirty feet long, others 

 uot above half as long ; this dep3nd3 upon the largeness of the Family they are to contain, for I be- 





FIG. 24. POUPOU AND TUKUTUKU AT OHINEMUTU. 



lieve few Familys are without such a House as these, altho' they do not always live in them, especially 

 in the summer season, when many of them live dispers'd up and down in little Temporary Hutts, 

 that are not sufficient to shelter them from the weather. 



This is the first group of those whose housebuilding we have glanced at, that 

 extends beyond the Tropics and, in the southern part, into a decidedly cold climate. 

 Snow-capped mountains with glaciers and extensive motmtain lakes lower the tempera- 

 ture even in summer, and we should naturally expect a verj^ different form of building 

 from the veranda-like hou.ses of Tahiti or Samoa. While hurricanes do not visit New 

 Zealand as they do Fiji, Samoa, and the southeastern Pacific generally, yet the pre- 

 vailing winds are in places very severe, as at Invercargill, where trees hardly venture 



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