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CH. VII 



difficult for me to see as much as I should have wished. 

 The house was approached by a ladder of some nine or ten 

 steps, and was divided into a number of compartments by 



Fia. 19.— Tampat Got. 



a series of wooden partitions, the one at the top of the 

 ladder being probably the largest, and serving as a common 

 room or entrance hall. When we entered, the chief sat 

 down on the floor in front of one of the principal pillars 



