“At Pahee are about 40 or 50 houses some of them 30 feet long; they are built of bark, placed between rows of horizontal rods of wood, or reeds... the storehouses where the food is kept, are built much in the form of their dwelling houses, but on a smaller scale and are placed on four pillars of wood of 18 or 19 feet high; some are supported by one very strong pillar,—this is done to prevent the rats getting at the provisions. They have spars with knotches cut in them, to serve the purposes of a ladder; these stores are usually stained with red ochre, as are also their houses: the pillars are ornamented with uncouth figures and faces of scarcely human aspect!” Journal of a Rambler, page 87-88.
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Turnbull Library Record, Volume 9, Issue 1, 1 May 1976, Unnumbered Page
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130“At Pahee are about 40 or 50 houses some of them 30 feet long; they are built of bark, placed between rows of horizontal rods of wood, or reeds... the storehouses where the food is kept, are built much in the form of their dwelling houses, but on a smaller scale and are placed on four pillars of wood of 18 or 19 feet high; some are supported by one very strong pillar,—this is done to prevent the rats getting at the provisions. They have spars with knotches cut in them, to serve the purposes of a ladder; these stores are usually stained with red ochre, as are also their houses: the pillars are ornamented with uncouth figures and faces of scarcely human aspect!” Journal of a Rambler, page 87-88. Turnbull Library Record, Volume 9, Issue 1, 1 May 1976, Unnumbered Page
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