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for future journeys. To avoid repetitious^ I will in this 

 chapter combine what not(3S I have about Temate. 



A description of my house (the plan of %vhich is here 

 shown) will enable the reader to understand a very 

 common mode of buOciing in tliese islands. There is of 

 course only one floor. Tiic walls are of stone up to three 

 feet high ; on this are strong squared posts supporting the 

 t >of, everywhere except in the verandah filled in with the 



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leaf-stems of the sago-palm, fitted neatly in wooden 

 framing. The floor ia of stucco, and the ceilings are like 

 the walls. The house is forty feet square, consists of four 

 rooms, a hall, and two verandahs, and is surrounded by a 

 wildeiTiess of fruit trees, A deep well supplied me with 

 pum cold water, a great luxury in this climate. Five 

 minutes' walk down the road brought me to the market 

 and the beach, while in the opposite direction there were 

 no more European houses between me and the mountain. 

 In this house I spent many happy days, Heturning to it 

 after a three or four months' absence in some uncivilized 



