20 COFFEE PLANTERS’ MANUAL. 
the part of those who were above asking advice or 
seeking counsel from their more experienced brethren. 
You will want a Bungalow for yourself, and one or 
more sets of Lines for your laborers. 
The BUNGALOW is a matter so entirely of taste and 
pocket, that it is hardly necessary to describe it here, 
If you want a common mud and thatch house, any 
Kandyan will undertake to build you one very cheap. 
If you want a more stylish article, you had better 
engage a builder, get a plan, specifications and esti- 
mate for the sort of house you want, and you will 
have one in course of time. One man may be satisfied 
with a building of wattle and daub, consisting of two 
small rooms and cook-house with common doors and 
ehutters and mud floor, which may cost him £20, 
Another may think the cheapest place he could live 
in would be one a little bigger, with shingled roof, glass 
windows, good doors and wooden floor, and some addi- 
tional out-houses, which might cost him £50. An- 
other may find £500 bis lowest figure; while Il have known 
several planters’ bungalows cost £2,000 each. It is 
entirely a matter of taste and money. My plan would 
always be to build a suitable house according to my 
means, of a sufficient size, and at a moderate cost, 
which could be enlarged or replaved when the planta- 
tion had given some return; from the amount of 
which I could be guided as to the size and style of 
my future habitation. For work-a-day men, however, 
who do not wish to cultivate luxurious habits, a house 
to begin with suitable for a bachelor and sufficiently 
commodious could be built for about £50, and for 
a family at all rates according to quality from £100 
to £200. 
Links in like manner must depend upon the quali- 
ty for their cost. Some planters prefer these being 
permanent, brick and tile, or stone and lme build- 
ings. These, where the materials are handy, are the 
most economical in the long run. But their first cost 
is more than many planters care to incur. For the 
man of money he may as well have all his buildings 
permanent from the first, but for the man of small 
means, he can afford to wait for fine buildings and 
be satisfied at first with those of a more ordinary 
construction. Wattle and daub lines with thatched 
roof can be built in rooms capable of holding 10 
people each, at from £1 to £2 per room, according to 
the district they are in. Lines of stone pillars, pointed 
with lime, mud interstices, and shingled roof, may 
cost £5 per room; while proper pucka buildings, 4¢., 
all stone and lime, or brick and lime with tiled roof, 
may cost all rates up to £10 per room according to 
the facility or otkerwise of procuring the materials, 
