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The two slanting up-rights supporting the transverse pieces (which form the seats for the occupants) are morticed into the outrigger.
The various parts of the canoe, ma-rà-kan, have special names applied to them : the prow is more pointed than the stern.
58. Habitations. A hut is called [blank space left here], and a collection of them, a camp, is known as yam-bà. They have names for all the component parts of a humpy. The method of con-struction [construction] is to stick into the ground a number of switches in pretty close apposition , around the area which will ulti-mately [ultimately] form the "floor" - surface : the free extremities of these switches are then bent over, and tied together, thus constituting the scaffolding, upon which the grass-tufts, lawyer-vine-leaves, or palm-leaves are laid. [three diagrams here depicting how the erection of the humpy]
Strange to say, these leaves are invariably commenced with from the top, succeeding layers being placed from above down; and heavy boughs or rather logs, weighing them down into position. The rain is kept out not so much owing to the arrangement of the leaves, as to the quantity put on.
Any bough shed, for protection of the sun etc., is spoken of as a wâ-búr.
59. Fire. The two-fire=sticks, tché-nuíl, are carried, as in the Gulf Country etc, with their extremities in a case ; the latter itself is founded of some light [piltey?] wood, or (formerly) ti-tree bark. The On hunting expeditions, the
[diagram of the fire stick is provided here]
sticks are usually carried about in the men's dilly-bags : In the olden days, the fire itself used to be carried about by women on these occasions. There are several legends relative to the discovery of fire, but they vary.
60. Domestic implements. Utensils etc. Fibre-string, and hair-string is made, but no nets. The Ká-kán, palm-fibre, dilly is often used as a sieve for the zamia nuts after they have been pounded: the bal-jí grass dilly-bag is also often used employed as a callender at the water's edge, in the subsequent preparation [diagram of callender here]