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Some account of Batavia

the draught & e the stairs for going upstairs where the rooms are generaly large tho few in number. such in general are their town houses, differing however in size, very much, & sometimes in shape, the principles however on which they are built universaly the same, two doors opposite each other, & one or more courts between them to cause a draught, which they do in an eminent degree, as well as dividing the room into alcoves, in one of which the family dine, while the female slaves (who on no occasion set any where else) work in another

Shewy however as these large rooms are to a stranger at his first seeing them, his eye has scarce measurd round him, before he is sensible of the thinness of furniture which is universal in all of them, in short the same quantity of furniture is sufficient for them, as is necessary in our smaller ones rooms in Europe, as in those, we entertain full as many guests at a time, as ever is done in these, consequently the chairs which are spread
 

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