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laid one bcsido the other, supported at the 

 two extremities by two other transverse 

 sticks which are set upon four wooden 

 posts; the whole being about two feel in 

 height, four feet broad and six feet lon{|. 

 One dozen Gbucho leaves gathered by their 

 ends, tied at the head of the bed, extend 

 themselves and cover it until the other ex- 

 tremity : these beds are placed around the 

 enclosure, in sucli a way that when all the 

 persons are sleeping every one has his feet 

 towards the centre of the liabitation wliich 

 is left vacant, to be used as a cook room, 

 or for any other purpose. 



DRESS. 



The clothes of the Jakuns (when they use 

 any) are ordinarily tlie same as tiiose used 

 by the Malays, but poor, miserable, and 

 above all very unclean; many of them use 

 clolhs without washing, from the day tliey 

 receive or* buv them, until they become 



