 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1857 - 1022 pages
...uncivilized man. The Dyak houses are all raised on posts, and are often 200 or 300 feet long, and 40 or 50 wide. The floor is always formed of large Bamboos,...be nearly flat, and these are firmly tied down with llattan to the rafters beneath. This, when well made, is a delightful floor to walk upon barefooted,... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - 688 pages
...most beautiful productions of the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man. The Dyak houses are all raised on posts, and are often...forty or fifty wide. The floor is always formed of strips split from large bamboos, so that each may be nearly flat and about three inches wide, and these... | |
 | New national reading books - 1880 - 362 pages
...beautiful productions of the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilised man. 3. The Dyak houses are all raised on posts, and are often...forty or fifty wide. The floor is always formed of strips split from large bamboos, so that each may be nearly flat and about three inches wide, and these... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 418 pages
...most beautiful productions of the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man. The Dyak houses are all raised on posts, and are often...forty or fifty wide. The floor is always formed of strips split from large bamboos, so that each may be nearly flat and about three inches wide, and these... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1884 - 248 pages
...the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilised man. A Bamboo House in Borneo. 3. The Dyak houses are all raised on posts, and are often...forty or fifty wide. The floor is always formed of strips split from large bamboos, so that each may be nearly flat and about three inches wide, and these... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1884 - 212 pages
...most beautiful productions of the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man. The Dyak houses are all raised on posts, and are often...forty or fifty wide. The floor is always formed of strips split from large bamboos, so that each may be nearly flat and about three inches wide, and these... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 516 pages
...productions of the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man. The Dyak N houses are all raised on posts, and are often two or three hundred feet long and forty or fifty feet wide. The floor is always formed of strips, about three inches wide, split from large bamboos,... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 514 pages
...productions of the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man. The Dyak N houses are all raised on posts, and are often two or three hundred feet long and forty or fifty feet wide. The floor is always formed of strips, about three inches wide, split from large bamboos,... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 524 pages
...productions of the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man. The Dyak N houses are all raised on posts, and are often two or three hundred feet long and forty or fifty feet wide. The floor is always formed of strips, about three inches wide, split from large bamboos,... | |
 | Richard Gilmour - 1894 - 418 pages
...beautiful productions of the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man. 3. The Dyak houses are all raised on posts, and are often...two or three hundred feet long and forty or fifty feet wide. The floor is always formed of strips, split from large bamboos, each nearly flat, and about... | |
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The bamboo is one of the most wonderful and most beautiful productions of the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man. The Dyak houses are all raised on posts, and are often two or three hundred feet long and forty or fifty... 