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the village of Thaë, one sees, fig. 84, already two houses of this deviating shape. Kajô 

 Entsâu, fig. 85, situated still more to the west has also two of thèse déviations, Tobâdi, fig. 87, 

 ten, whilst in Ingràs, fig. 88, the pyramid-shaped roofs are already quite in the minority. 



Fig. 83. Houses with pyramid-shaped roof; Oinâke. 



Still more towards the west, at Sâgeisârâ and on Lake Sentâni, only a few spécial 

 houses are provided with the pyramid roof, and if I remember rightly, this shape of roof is 

 no longer met with in the whole of the western part of the lake ; neither in Tanah Merah Bay. 



Fig. 84. Village of Thaë, district Sëka. 



The construction of thèse houses, without a central post and with a loft, placed at 

 half the height of the roof, can, to some extent, be noticed in fig. 86 of the village of 

 Mabo. Van DER GOES [1858, 174] is wrong, when he expresses the opinion that the vertical 



