IN THE COUNTRY OF UIMA. 
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figure these houses. They are entirely similar to them except that 
they are a little larger, and have a higher roof. The house rests 
upon 4 pillars of wood, 8, 10,12 feet high, coming above the floor 
made of split bambu. The roof rises almost immediately from the 
floor, the walls not being more than a foot in height. The roof is 
made sometimes of grass (diking allang Mat.) sometimes of rows of 
bambu (sirap Mai.) sometimes of the sheaths of pinangleaves (oup6 
Mai.) The interior of the house forms a single apartment, so 
that parents and children all live and sleep in the same chamber, 
which is not more than 12 to 15 feet in length and breadth, and 
which serves also for cooking. For all entrance, the house has in 
front an opening of the size of a window, which perhaps doses 
by a kind of shutter of the bark of a tree, and which is always with¬ 
out a lock. A ladder of bambu leads to this strange door; above in 
the house the men woib, make cloths, keep their poultry, goats, 
their implements of agriculture, fire wood, bambus &c. For 
the riee they have granaries similar to the houses, only smaller. 
The utensils and household goods are easily named,—some pots, some 
baskets, some mats or goat skins to serve as mattrasses, a billet of 
squared wood to serve as a pillow ; these are the whole. The moun¬ 
taineers who have become Mahomedans are beginning to construct 
their houses like the inhabitants of the plain. The men of the 
Orang Dongo dress like the men of Bmia. They wear very short 
trowsers of blue and white striped cotton ; above it, a Coarse sarong 
also blue and white. The rich only wear sometimes a short vest, 
the poor never have it. All have the hair long and smooth, confined 
by a band made of a Lontar leaf, and plaited in such a way that it 
sticks out side ways in the manner of a horn 4 to 6 inches in 
length. They have no other head dress. It is very remarkable 
that certain people of the South Sea Islands have a similar fashion 
of binding up the hair, for example at Otaheite. The men w ho 
have become Mahomedans wear upon the head a piece of cotton in 
the form of a kerchief, as do nearly all the Malay inhabitants of the 
islands of the Archipelago. 
The women all wear very large trowsers which fall below the 
knees and which there clasp the leg. They are of very coarse cot¬ 
ton striped transversly in blue and white; above this they often 
(not always) wear a sarong of similar stuff. Like the men they are 
also dressed in a vest, which is very large and longer than that of 
the men, without sleeves but with the sleeve holes large. They 
