146 COFFEE : ITS CULTIVATION AND PROFIT. 



laths or split bamboo are nailed horizontally, and 

 into the hollow wall thus built up, worked clay, the 

 same as that used for preparing bricks, is firmly 

 trodden in, stones being occasionally added and 

 rammed down to send the " daub " into all cracks 

 and corners. 



When our walls are dry, they may have another 

 coating of clay inside and out, covering all the wood- 

 work, and bringing their thickness up to ten inches 

 or a foot ; and finally an inside service of " chunam," 

 i.e., plaster, and a harling of whitewash will make 

 them neat and inhabitable. Buildings of this sort 

 will last for forty or fifty years that is to say, as 

 long as the Coffee itself. 



" Cabook " or "laterite " is a kind of decomposed 

 rock which has the convenient faculty of becoming 

 hard by exposure to the atmosphere. It is cut out 

 some six to ten feet below the surface in blocks or 

 bricks about 15 in. in length by 9 in. by 6 in., with 

 an axe or spade ; these bricks becoming hard in a 

 few days make neat as well as substantial walls. 



Perhaps wattle and mud is as good as anything 

 for coolie lines. It is much the same as they have 

 always been accustomed to ; it is fireproof, and 

 not expensive. Both inside and outside should be 

 kept perfectly smooth with plaster, and gone over 

 occasionally with chunam to keep down insects. 



Eight or ten rooms side by side and under one 

 roof is as many as it is advisable to put together. 

 Each family owns a room, and the castes are less 



