16 AN- EXPEDITION TO MOUNT BATU LAWI. 
was no outer platform running the length of the house for drying 
paddy, as the Muruts dry theirs on the farms, but only the small 
one at the end, which appeared to serve no particular purpose. ‘The 
side devoted to the livi ing rooms was Sone off unequally into 
five compartments, one for each family; each compartment being 
provided with a door and a fireplace; the dividing partitions were 
for the most part low and by standing up one could see pretty well 
frem one end of the house to the other. The accompanying 
diagram gives an idea of the “ ground-floor ” plan. 
As a distinguished visitor I was acconmmodated during those 
four days with a corner in one of these rooms, the other occupants 
being three middle-aged Muruts laides, very dirty and ugly and two 
small children. ‘The woman appeared to possess but one garment 
each, which they never changed during the whole time I was there. 
My diary of April 4th, 1910, has the following note recorded in that 
P house :— P 
Stel 3 Ul db7 =e - E 
Pp (Murut) 
i, ii, ili, living rooms (terkap.) 
(1)—(5), fire-places for cooking (tal) fittel with wooden rack (dran) for 
drying fire-wood. 
6,7, 8,  fire-places. 
M, door (tingga) into living-room from common verandah. 
N—N,_ dividing wall of boards, bark or split rotan, (pip2). 
8,T,V; Common room (sikang). 
X,Y Z, Common passage, a step lower than the common raom (S.T7.V.), 
(naduran) 
A, dividing partition (swman’ between living rooms, about 4ft high, of 
split rotan or bark. 
R, mletiorns outside. 
Q, steps (tchan) from platform to ground, about 8ft. 
P, main posts supporting floor and roof {dir7). 
The ‘‘attic’’ formed by a few boards laid across the beams under the roof is 
called parong (Dayak sadau) ; The roof is called buitok; the floor, seloi; leaf 
attaps for roof, apor ; beam supporting the rafters, piian ; tie-beam supporting 
the floor, barat ; rest for cooking-pot, wngan ; cooking: pot, badong ; mat, ugum. 
Height of floor of house above grounl, 8ft., of side walls to lo west p: art of 
roof, 4aft., ‘of middle partition to top of roof ridge 8ft. 
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