 ... cocoa-nut leaf blinds. During the day the blinds are pulled up, and all the interior exposed to a free current of air. The floor is raised six or eight inches with rough stones, then an upper layer of smooth pebbles, then some cocoa-nut leaf mats,...  The Ancient Hawaiian House - Seite 198von William Tufts Brigham - 1908 - 194 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1858 - 668 Seiten
...are shut in at night by roughly-plaited cocoanut-leaf blinds. During the day, the blinds are pulled up, and all the interior exposed to a free current...then some cocoanut-leaf mats, and then a layer of fine matting. Houses of important chiefs are erected on a raised platform of stones three feet high.... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1860 - 734 Seiten
...are shut in at night by roughly plaited cocoa-nut, leaf blinds. During the clay the blinds are pulled up, and all the interior exposed to a free current...stones, then an upper layer of smooth pebbles, then some cocoa-nut leaf mats, and then a layer of finer matting. Houses of important chiefs are erected on a... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1863 - 438 Seiten
...are shut in at night by roughly-plaited cocoa-nut leaf blinds. During the day tho blinds are pulled up, and all the interior exposed to a free current...then an upper layer of smooth pebbles ! then some cocoa-nut leaf mats, and then 392 WOODEN PILLOWS FOR SAVAGE HEADS. a layer of finer matting. In the... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1863 - 478 Seiten
...are shut in at night by roughly-plaited cocoa-nut leaf blinds. During the day the blinds are pulled up, and all the interior exposed to a free current...then an upper layer of smooth pebbles ! then some cocoa-nut leaf mats, and then a layer of finer matting. In the centre of the house, there are two or... | |
 | George Turner - 1884 - 484 Seiten
...are shut in at night by roughly-plaited cocoa-nut leaf blinds. During the day the blinds are pulled up, and all the interior exposed to a free current...stones, then an upper layer of smooth pebbles, then some cocoa-nut leaf mats, and then a layer of finer matting. Houses of important chiefs are erected on a... | |
 | Church missionary society - 614 Seiten
...are shut in at night by roughly plaited cocoa-nut leaf blinds. During the day the blinds are pulled up, and all the interior exposed to a free current...stones, then an upper layer of smooth pebbles, then some cocoa-nut leaf mats, and then a layer of finer matting. Houses of important chiefs are erected on a... | |
 | George Turner - 1979 - 288 Seiten
...roughly-plaited cocoa-nut leaf blinds. During the day the blinds are pulled CHAP, xiii.] HOUSES. 153 up, and all the interior exposed to a free current...stones, then an upper layer of smooth pebbles, then some cocoa-nut leaf mats, and then a layer of finer matting. Houses of important chiefs are erected on a... | |
 | 1859 - 466 Seiten
...are shut in at night by roughly plaited cocoa-nut leaf blinds. During the day the blinds are pulled up, and all the interior exposed to a free current...stones, then an upper layer of smooth pebbles, then some cocoa-nut leaf mats, and then a layer of finer matting. Houses of important chiefs are erected on a... | |
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