 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1874 - 540 páginas
...other end through a small door. The object in building on piles is for security against crocodiles, serpents, and the annual inundations. In the wet season...houses are thatched with the leaves of the sago-palm. We climbed up a rough ladder in the largest in Torotoram. The front verandah would seat a dozen adults.... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1872 - 966 páginas
...other end through a small door. The object in building on piles is for security against crocodiles, serpents, and the annual inundations. In the wet season...houses are thatched with the leaves of the sago-palm. "Wo climbed up a rough ladder in the largest in Torotoram. The front verandah would seat a dozen adults.... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1874 - 616 páginas
...other end through a small door. The object in building on piles is for security against crocodiles, serpents, and the annual inundations. In the wet season...houses are thatched with the leaves of the sago-palm. We climbed up a rough ladder in the largest in Torotoram. The front verandah would seat a dozen adults.... | |
 | Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - 1890 - 580 páginas
...through a small door. The object in building on piles is security against alligators [crocodiles], serpents and the annual inundations. In the wet season...to their plantations on the higher ground in canoes (p. 2i!9). Their houses are thatched with the leaves of the sago-palm, which grows freely in all parts... | |
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... Katau, is of great length, built on lofty piles, and provided at each gable-end with a wide verandah and a ladder. To peep into one is like looking through a railway tunnel — light appearing at the other end through a small door. The object in building... 