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fastened down with bamboo pins resembling attenuated shoe- 
Fic. 2.—Street in Kandu Ku, Tokio. 
pegs, and long narrow bamboo strips are often n 
across the roof from ridge pole to eaves. 
In tiling a roof the boarded roof is first roughly 
ailed obliquely 
and thinly 
= ae 
K 
Fic. 3.—Roof with shingles partly laid. 
shingled, and upon this surface is spread a thick 
_ into which the tiles are firmly imbedded. There seems to 9%. h 
_ Special adhesi d, and hig? 
layer of mud, 
adhesion of the tiles to this substratum of mu 
