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Rh small sand flies which annoyed us very much in the evenings.

Besides the huts on the beach, which were merely strips of bark removed to form a shelter from the sun, there were others on top of the hill over the tents, of a larger and more substantial construction; no two, however, were built after the same fashion. One of the was thus erected:—Two walls of stones, piled one upon the other to the height of three feet, formed the two ends; and saplings were laid across to support a covering of bark or dried grass: the front, which faced the east, was not closed; but the back, which slanted from the roof to the ground, appeared to have been covered with bark like the roof.