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PLASSUR PITTEE. 
at our ease. The hut consisted of three apartments, separated 
from each other by bamboo mats ; the centre, open at both ends, was 
our sitting-room ; the others, divided from it by matting, formed our 
bed-rooms. A plank of wood, simply hewn from a tree, and sup- 
ported on four legs of bamboo, formed our table, and our seats were 
of similar construction. Three lamps of different forms lighted our 
apartment ; one standing on the table consisted of a small block of 
wood, in which was fixed a piece of bamboo supporting a segment of a 
cocoa-nut ; the second was the half of an oblong fruit hollowed in its 
centre, and through its sides was passed a slip of bamboo, by 
which it was suspended ; the third was more complex in its fabrica- 
tion, and more elegant in its shape. Each was furnished with cocoa- 
nut oil. 
Our beds were bamboo frames, covered with mats ; on these, 
with our saddles for pillows, we passed the night. I suffered severely 
from cold, the thermometer having fallen in the evening, between 
the hours of six and twelve, from seventy-five to sixty-six degrees. 
Leslie’s hygrometer marked the point of extreme moisture. 
At day-break we recommenced our journey to the crater of the 
mountain, accompanied by natives in great numbers, part of them 
being appointed as guides by the Ingabi, the others attracted by 
curiosity. The ascent of the mountain from the village was ex- 
tremely steep from its commencement ; and although a road had 
been cut by the natives through a wood, over a narrow ridge, 
