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to the building of their houfes. The materials, fize, and deftlnation 

 of their houfes and buildings, conftitute their difference. The 

 wood of the a-hoodoo, or harrmgtoniafpeclofay of the mocarpus edulisy 



of the eveey or fpondias po?mfera, of the 



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are the 



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phyllum inophyllum, and of the ooroo or artocarp 

 various materials ufed in building their houfes. The natives call in 

 general a houfe te-wharre ; fome are fmall and round, and are called 

 t^-wharre-potto .; thofe v^hich are very large 



and long, are named 



'sharre-tarra : and befides thefe, they have houfes or fheds 



flielter their large double v^ar-canoes. 



The common houfes are 



from 15 



feet long, and 



c v^^ide, the roof eight 



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feet high in the middle, and about five or fix feet on the fides, 

 though the eves projed a good way beyond the fides, or pofls. 



The houfes are all built with three rows of polls, fupporting the 

 roof fera-woroj : the middle row of pofls, (epo-oo) i& about 16 or 

 20 feet high in the large houfes, and from eight to ten in the com- 

 mon or fmaller onesj they fupport a beam, forming the ridge 

 of the roof, (tocore-yore) on which they fix the timbers, or 

 of the roof, (ahh) which are again borne by a long beam, called 

 epaiy under which a row of fide-pofi:s (tooto-oroo) is placed, Hand- 

 ing on another h^zra (too-arroo) that refls on the ground: fome- 

 times they fill thefe ip aces between the beams and pofls on the fides 

 of the houfe with bamboos, and this method of buildinsf they 



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