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several rooms, some of which were for the 

 private accommodation of the Jakuii ladies 

 of tlie family; the furiiilure consisted of 

 some pots, plates, several other vessels and 

 a good quantity of mats. Other houses 

 were mucii more common, but yet pretty 

 comfortable, clean, and always divided into 

 two or three rooms at least, and furnished 

 witii a frying pan of iron to cook rice, a 

 few shells of coco-nut to keep water, and 

 baskets used to bring food. AH tliose houses 

 are raised about six feet fiom ihe gmiind, 

 and are entered by a ladder like the Malay 

 liouses. 



The best bouses of the Menaugkabaw 

 Jakuns are about the same as the more 

 simple and common houses of the Jakuns 

 of Joliore: the others are as described by 

 Lieutenant ISewbold (t rude edifices on tin* 

 top of four high wooden poles; thus elevat- 

 ed for fear of tigers, and entered by moans 

 of n long bidder, and presenting, viewed 



