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THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO •
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. . . . The village of Bessir was built in the water at a point of a small island. . . . The shores were a range of low limestone cliffs, worn out by the water, so that the upper part generally overhung. . . . . Immediately above was a large newly made plantation of yams and plantain, and a small hut, which the chief said we might have the use of it would do for me. It was quite a dwarf’s house, just eight feet square, raised on posts so that the floor was four and a half feet above the ground, and the highest part of the ridge only five feet above the floor. As I am six feet and ian inch of my stockings, Iliiked at this with some dismay; but finding that the other houses were much further from water, we dreadfully dirt, and were crowded with people, I at once accepted the little one, and determined to make the best of it. . . . In the lower part (which was quite open all round) I fixed up a small table, arranged my boxes, put up hanging-shelves, laid a mat on the ground with my wicker-chair upon it, hung up another mat of the windward side, and then found that, by bending double and carefully creeping in, I could sit on my chair with my head just clear of the ceiling. Here I lived petty comfortably for six weeks, taking all my meals and doing all my work at my little table, to and from which I had to creep in a semi-horizontal position a dozen of times a day; and , after a few severe knocks on the head by suddenly rising from my chair, learnt to accommodate myself to circumstances. We put up little sliping cooking-hut outside, and a bench. . . . . At night I went up to my little loft, they spread their mats on the floor below, and we none of us grumbled at our lodgings. ~ Page 405

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