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523. Some account of Princes Isle.
respect differd from those of the midling people except being a little longer.
[Small sketch with door, window, partitions and spaces marked from a - f ] a.the door. b. the window c. the partition where the master & his wife sleep. d. the partition where the children sleep. e. where the victuals are cookd. f. where strangers or visitors sleep.
the walls were made of Bamboo platted on small perpendicular sticks fastned to the Beams the floors were also of Bamboo Each stick however laid at a small distance from the next so that the air had a free passage from below by which means these houses were always cool the thach of Palm leaves was always thick & strong so that neither rain nor sunbeams could find entrance through it
When we were at the town there were very few inhabitants there the rest livd in Ocasional houses built in the rice feilds where they watchd the crop to prevent the devastations of Monkies, birds, &c. these occasional houses are smaller than those of the town the posts which support them also instead of being 4 or 5 feet in hight are 8 or 10 otherwise
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