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187. Some account of New Zealand
a European dog kennel & resembling one in the door at least which is barely high & wide enough to admit a man crawling upon all fours. they are seldom more than 16 or 18 feet long 8 or 10 broad & five or 6 high from the ridge pole to the Ground & built with a sloping roof like our Europaean houses the materials of both walls & roof is dry grass or hay & very tightly it is put together so that nescessarily they must be very warm some are lind with bark of trees on the inside & many have either over the door or fixd somewhere in the house a peice of Plank coverd with their carving which they seem to value much as we do a picture placing it always as conspicuously as possible all these houses have the door at one end & near it is generaly a square hole which serves for a window or probably in winter time more for a chimney for then they light a fire in the middle of the house at the same end where this door & window are placed the side walls & roof project generaly 18 inches or 2 feet beyond the end wall making a kind of Porch in which are benches where the people of the house often set within is a square place fencd of with either boards or
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