204 HOUSES AND INHABITANTS. 



enough, almost any quantity of poultry, buffaloes, 

 fruit, and vegetables, could have been procured in 

 the morning. We walked through the kampong, 

 and were everywhere most kindly received by the 

 people. They seemed especially delighted to see 

 the English ladies, and invited us to their houses. 

 These were all built on posts about six feet high, 

 which were sometimes left open, but at others fenced 

 round, and used either for a fowl-pen, or rice-store. 

 Steps, or a ladder, led up to the front door. The 

 houses were almost entirely constructed of bamboo, 

 and were equally light, strong, and cool. The floor 

 was covered with clean mats, the apartments sepa- 

 rated by curtains or screens of split bamboo, and 

 each had a window and shutter. Overhead were 

 racks, in which we saw spears, muskets, and agri- 

 cultural and fishing implements. 



The women were engaged either in weaving or 

 making pastry, and they were all neat, clean, and 

 good-humoured. Macgillivray and I afterwards 

 came, when by ourselves, on a large and commodi- 

 ous house, of which the owners were Bugis. On 

 asking permission to enter, one of the men imme- 

 diately shewed us up stairs, and introduced us to 

 the females of the family. They were very busy 

 making cakes of rice-flour, sugar, and eggs , They 

 cut them into stars and flower-shaped patterns, and 

 then handed them to an old woman, who was squat- 

 ting near a small stove, over which she fryed them 

 in a shallow vessel of cocoa-nut oil. They seemed 



