 | 1791 - 580 páginas
...covered with thatch. The entry is through a trap door below, where the family mount by a ladder, which is drawn up at night. This manner of building is intended to fecurethe hoafes from being infefted with {bakes and rats, and for that purpofe the pillars are bound... | |
 | 1791 - 542 páginas
...covered with thatch. The entry is through a trapdoor below, where the lamily mount by a ladder, which is drawn up at night. This manner of building is intended to lecure the houles from being interied with I'n.ikes and i.its, and for that purpofe the pillars are... | |
 | 1792 - 724 páginas
...is intended to fecnre the houfes from being inttfled with fnakes, and rats, and for that purpnfi-r the pillars are bound round with a fmooth kind of...leaf, which prevents animals from being able to mount ; hefides which, each pillar his a broad flat piece of wood near ti.srttip <>' it, the projefling of... | |
 | 1792 - 784 páginas
...This manner of building is intended to;feciire the houies from being infefted with fflakes, and rais, and for that purpofe the pillars are bound round with a fmooth kind o'f -teaf, which, prevents animals from being able to mount ; befides which, each- pillar has a broad flat... | |
 | 1793 - 524 páginas
...covered with thatch. The entry is through a trap door below» where the family mannt by a ladder, which is drawn up at night. This manner of building is intended...for that purpofe the pillars are bound round with af moo th kind of leaf, which prevents animals from being able to mount ; befide which each pillar... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 450 páginas
...covered with thatch. The entry is through a trap-door below, where the family mount by a ladder, which is drawn up at night. This manner of building is intended to fecure the hnufcs from being ¡nfelhd with fnakes and rats; and lor that purpofe the pillars are bound round with... | |
 | Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - 1801 - 540 páginas
...• • Z tliatch. The entry is through a trap-door below, where the family mount by a ladder, which is drawn .up at night. This manner of building is...the .houfes from being infefted with fnakes and rats 5 and for that purpofe the pillars are bound round with a fmooth kind of leaf, which prevents animals... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 814 páginas
...is through a trap door below, where the family mount by a ladder, which is drawn up at night. Tins manner of building is intended to fecure the houfes from being infefted with makes and rats ; and for that purpofe the pillars arc bound round wilh a ûnooth kind of leaf,, ;Nicobar.... | |
 | 1816 - 778 páginas
...cove-red with thatch. The entry is through a -trap-door below, where the family mount by a ladder, which is drawn up at night. This manner of building is intended to fecure the houfes from makes and rats ; and for that purpofe the .pillars are bound round with a fmooth kind' of 'leaf, which... | |
 | India. Home Department - 1870 - 344 páginas
...covered with thatch. The entry is through a trap door below, where the family mount by a ladder, which is drawn up at night. This manner of building is intended to secure the houses from being infested with snakes and rats, and for that purpose the pillars are bound... | |
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Thefe habitations are raifcd upon wooden pillars about ten feet from the ground; they are round, and having no windows, look like bee-hives, covered with thatch. The entry is through a trap door below, where the family mount by a ladder, which is drawn... 
