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Rh up and down, of whom they make an intant prey, Along the banks are many villages, at about ten or twelve miles ditance from each other, where we ometimes laid in a freh upply of proviions. There is no diplay of art in the contruction of the cottages, which are only compoed of broad green flags fatened together, and upported by frames of bamboes. When the floods begin to overflow the country, the natives, with much eae, remove their dwellings from one place to another, firt taking them aunder, then tolling up the partitions and roofs, and finally carrying them in bundles, wherever convenience of ituation, out of the reach of danger, might allure them to