360 WAIGIOU. [chap. XXXVI. 



ceiling. Here I lived pretty comfortably for six weeks, 

 taking aU my meals and doing all my work at my little 

 table, to and from which I had to creep in a semi-horizontal 

 position a dozen times a day; and, after a few severe 



MV HOUSE AT BESSIR, IN WAIGIOU. 



knocks on the head by suddenly rising from my chair, 

 learnt to accommodate myself to circumstances. We put 

 up a little sloping cooking-hut outside, and a bench on 

 which my lads could skin their birds. At night I went 

 up to my little loft, they spread their mats on the floor 

 below, and we none of us grumbled at our lodgings. 

 Mv first business was to send for the men who were 



