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middle opening, as can be seen more plainly on fig. 79. In addition to serving as pile- 

 dwellings in the water, houses with turtle-shaped roofs are also built on the shore, wherever 

 the depth or the beating of the waves makes this necessary. Such houses at Wâri, fig. 82, also 

 had the large, shaded 

 platforms turned to- 

 wards the sea and 

 could be reached along 

 a notched tree stem. 

 How the building of 

 most of thèse houses 

 is influenced by the 

 tortoise shape may be 

 understood on looking 

 at fig. 93, a tempo- 

 rary. hastily construct- 

 ed dwelling at Mios 

 Kôrwâr, where how- 

 ever the platform is 

 placed along a side 

 wall. The "ru m sëram" 

 constructed hère (fig. 

 196), was, just like De 

 Clercq (De Clercq 



and SCHMELTZ [1893, 177, PI. XXXIX, fig. 12]) reports of Ron, also provided with a turtle- 

 shaped roof. I was not a 

 little surprised to find that 

 some of the houses on Lake 

 Jamur also appeared to hâve 

 the turtle-shaped roof, and 

 thereby, nothwithstanding 

 the proved linguistic rela- 

 tion with the south west 

 coast, show an unmistakable 

 relationship with the culture 

 of Geelvink Bay. Fig. 80 of 

 the island of Angâdi, si- 

 tuated in the lake, shows 

 plainly the platform (turned 

 towards the water) on which 

 the coolies of the expédi- 

 tion were housed and which 

 may be reached along small 



Fig. 78. Dwellings at Wendèsi; low tide. 



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Fig. 79. Back side of a house at Wendèsi; Geelvink 



bamboo steps. This dwelling has however besides, in the style of the house at Mios Kôrwâr, a wide 



