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supports the runner, is connected with the side framing posts only 
indirectly through the wall plates. In the ordinary size houses 
(pl. 62 A, B) there would be two main posts, one at either end of 
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Fic. 75.—Permanent house, Rectangular two post. Construction of frame. Reference 
letters the same as in figure 71. 
the building, supporting the ridgepole with their forked extremities, 
but in the larger ones, those with a length markedly greater than 
their width, there may be a third one halfway between the other two. 
The rafters project to such a 
length beyond the wall plate 
that when thatched they al- 
most touch the ground. The 
ends of these buildings are 
left open like the sides. To 
cover them in at all with truli 
or other leaves, etc., as I have 
sometimes noticed, is said to 
be all “ modern fashion.” 
312. The rectangular huts 
(karbets) of the Galibi 
-(Carib) in Cayenne would 
appear to have been built on 
a primitive plan peculiarly 
B their own. They were known 
Fic. 76.—Framework of the koubouya (4) and as koubouya or low houses 
taboiii (B) house. Cayenne. (fig 76 A) built on the 
ground to distinguish them from the sura (sec. 316) or high 
houses (pl. 63 A), the one-story buildings. They were constructed 
of two posts, carrying a big (ridge) pole (fig. 76 A), that sup- 
ported the entire structure. Against this pole were laid saplings 
