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date three or four people ou top ; local names — KWA. barpur, 

 KLA. arrianggar, KRA. iigamba. To form the fourth stage 

 this sleeping platform is enclosed with two more ridge-poles 

 resting on correspondingly longer forked supports, which, when 

 covered in with bark-sheet, constitute a habitation raised above 

 the surface of the ground. The furthest north at which 1 have 

 observed such a composite hut was on the Enibley River ; in 

 the neighbourhood of the junction of the Palmer and Mitchell 

 Rivers (PI. xiii., fig. 2), Suh-Inspector Garraway tells me the 

 platform is fixed at a height varying from six inches to three feet. 

 On the Embley River the men use the platforms, the women 

 having to be content with the ground, their business being to 

 mind the fire. 



