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" Cook* tells you pull away, 

 I will do so, and so must you." 



The work in which the Samoans show their greatest ingenuity, is 

 in the construction of their native houses, and particularly of their 

 fale-teles or council-houses, some of which are of large dimensions. 

 They are built of the wood of the bread-fruit tree, and there are two 

 modes in use, their own, and that borrowed from the Friendly Islands. 

 The true Samoan hou.se is slightly oval, those of the Friendly Islands 

 are oblong. They may be said to consist of three parts, the centre 

 and two ends; the former is erected first. For this purpose the three 

 centre posts, which are twenty-five or thirty feet high, are usually 

 first raised ; on these rests the ridge-pole. A staging or scaffolding is 

 now erected nearly in the form of the roof, which serves for ladders 

 and to support the roof temporarily. The roof is commenced at the 

 ridge-pole and is worked downwards. The cross-beams are lashed in 

 at different heights, connecting the centre portions of the roof together, 

 and are fastened to the upright centre posts. The rafters are made 

 of short pieces, placed at equal distances apart, and form the curve 

 that is required to construct the roof. Between the largest rafters are 

 smaller ones, about one foot apart. Across the rafters are placed and 

 fastened many small rods, about an inch in diameter. The whole is 

 neatly thatched with the sugar-cane or Pandanus leaves, and the 



* All the natives have some knowledge of Captain Cook, derived from their commu- 

 nication with the Friendly Islands. 



vol. ii. 39 



