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CHAPTER XXV. 
Of their Houfes.—Their domeftic Implements.—Their Weapons 
of War.—Their Canoes . 
THEIR HOUSES. 
^TiHEIR houfes were raifed about three feet from the 
-*• ground, placed on large ftones, which appeared as if 
cut from the quarry, being thick and oblong; on thefe pe- 
deftals the foundation beams were laid, from whence fprang 
the upright fupports of their fides, which were crofled by 
other timbers grooved together, and fattened by wooden 
pins; the intermediate fpaces clofely filled up with bam¬ 
boos and palm-leaves, which they platted fo clofely and artifi¬ 
cially as to keep their habitations warm and exclude all wet; 
and their being raifed from the ground preferved them 
from any humidity. The floors were in general made of very 
thick plank, a fpace of an inch or two being left between 
many of them. But in fome of the houfes they were com- 
pofed of large bamboos fplit, which being perpetually trod¬ 
den over, rendered them very flipper y .-—The interior part of 
the 
