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Fig. 160. Island with watch-house near A se. 



announce one's arrivai by calling, to prevent sudden fright giving rise to active defence. In the 



temples and young men's houses, afterwards to be considered, watch is kept, and the sleeping 



together of many men in thèse houses, as well as the meeting of men in the community houses, 



is useful in the case 



of sudden attacks. — 



When the houses of the 



expédition, guarded by 



a single constable du- 



ring the absence of the 



members, were endang- 



ered by the people of 



Waba, the village of 



Tobâdi offered quite 



spontaneously a strong 



guard, which was, howe- 



ver, not accepted. 



On Lake Sentâni 

 watch-house s, ôbè, 

 are found, where boys 

 and men do not only 

 meet and sleep, but 



where also a regular watch is kept. In the village of Asé there are about rive of thèse buildings, 

 one octagonal, of a purely pyramid form (fig. 158), the others more four-sided, with a shorter or 

 longer horizontal ridge pôle (fig. 159). They are standing, like the other houses, more or less 

 regularly distributed between 

 thèse, in the shallow water 

 round the island, but in such 

 a way that the house of the 

 village chief is flanked on both 

 the sides by a watch-house. 

 One of thèse is that of fig. 158, 

 and appeared to be the prin- 

 cipal one, and on the other 

 side of it the house of the 

 son of the village chief was 

 in course of construction (see 

 the pôles to the right, and 

 fig. 91, p. 139J. Hère also 

 the large boar lances (see 

 p. 155) are kept. The human 

 image, sôsô, on the top, was first said to be a maie and afterwards a female. Ail thèse watch-houses 

 hâve a more or less roomy platform, larger than possessed by any private house, and hère one 

 or more men are always found, employing their time in manufacturing armlets, lime gourds, 



Fig. 161. Pyramid-shaped watch-house; Ifar. 



