. Two years in the jungle : the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo . o theother, was a row of sixteen rooms, each about twelve feet square,entered by a single door from the middle passage. a B B B C3 B B B B B FIRE FAMILY ROOMS FIRE PASSAGE PASSAGE < 3 0 o O o PUBLIC D 0 0 0 COMMON HALL FIRE COMMON HALL OPEN-AIR PLATFORM Plan of Dyak Long-house. All the timbers of the house were lashed together with rattans,not a nail nor even a wooden pin being used anywhere. Nor wereany of the timbers mortised together at any point. The Dyak ideaof fast
. Two years in the jungle : the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo . o theother, was a row of sixteen rooms, each about twelve feet square,entered by a single door from the middle passage. a B B B C3 B B B B B FIRE FAMILY ROOMS FIRE PASSAGE PASSAGE < 3 0 o O o PUBLIC D 0 0 0 COMMON HALL FIRE COMMON HALL OPEN-AIR PLATFORM Plan of Dyak Long-house. All the timbers of the house were lashed together with rattans,not a nail nor even a wooden pin being used anywhere. Nor wereany of the timbers mortised together at any point. The Dyak ideaof fastening two objects together is to lash them with gi*een rattan ;civilized man believes in nailing, pinning, mortising, or fasteningwith screws. The floor was of narrow strips of the nibong palm, an inch anda half wide, lashed to the sleepers about an inch apart, thus givinga floor more open than lattice-work. The wall which divided therooms from the open hall was of wide boards hewn out with thebiliong, placed upright, and lashed together and to a base-boardwith rattans. Each door was one wide board with a projecting.
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