. Java and her neighbours; a traveller's notes in Java Celebes, the Moluccas and Sumatra . f shutters or screens, and thedoors plain and usual. In the better buildings anelaborate gabled porch projects at the entrance,and the ends of the main structure, rising in curveslike the ends of a boat, are highly carved. It is to the roofs, however, that the highlandhouses actually owe their individuality of appear-ance. The roof in its simplest form consists of aflexible ridge-pole rimning lengthwise of the house,supported only at the ends, and covered with soheavy a load of thatch that it sags in the
. Java and her neighbours; a traveller's notes in Java Celebes, the Moluccas and Sumatra . f shutters or screens, and thedoors plain and usual. In the better buildings anelaborate gabled porch projects at the entrance,and the ends of the main structure, rising in curveslike the ends of a boat, are highly carved. It is to the roofs, however, that the highlandhouses actually owe their individuality of appear-ance. The roof in its simplest form consists of aflexible ridge-pole rimning lengthwise of the house,supported only at the ends, and covered with soheavy a load of thatch that it sags in the middleand its top line presents the outline of a crescent;to-day the curves are purposely planned, and theentire roof is often made of tin. This, the simpletype of roof, when viewed from the front or rearof the dwelling, has something of the shape of anexaggeratedly peaked army saddle or, to a lessdegree, of the homed upper half of a cows skullseen from full in front. A development of theprimitive form is found in the houses with wingsat the ends, each wing necessitating an additional. iki
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