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Rh tioned to the number of the family: there is usually but one aperture or entrance, and is, in appearance, not unlike a bee-hive.

These are the common lodging-huts of the natives; their cooking operations, which, indeed, do not require a great number of vessels, or attendants, are carried on in a shed at a little distance from the hut, and which is formed by fixing four posts in the ground, about five feet high, on which is laid a flat covering of rushes.