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DESCRIPTION OF THEIR HUTS. 



thirty feet as the leng-th^ nine the breadth, and 

 thirteen the height in centre of one of these huts — 

 the one figured in the accompanying plate j the 

 annexed woodcut gives an end view of another. 



All four were built upon exactly the same plan. 

 The supporting posts are four in number, and raise 

 the floor about four and a half feet from the ground, 

 leaving a clear space beneath. Before entering the 

 body of the hut each post passes through an oval 

 disc of wood, a foot and a half in diameter, the 

 object of which is probably to prevent the ingress 

 into the dwelling of snakes, rats, or other vermin, 

 most likel}^ the 3Ius Indicus, with which all the 



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