 Their houses, or at least most of them, are circular, something like a bee-hive, and full as close and warm. The entrance is by a small door, or long square hole, just big enough to admit a man bent double. The side-walls...  The Ancient Hawaiian House - Seite 250von William Tufts Brigham - 1908 - 194 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Campbell - 1813 - 546 Seiten
...and laughing very heartily at their ridiculous disappointment. Their houses or huts are circular as a bee-hive, and full as close and warm. The entrance is by a square hole, big enough to admit a man bent double; the side-walls four feet and a half high, the roof... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 542 Seiten
...axes, indeed, are a little different; some, at least, which may be owing to fancy as much as custom. Their houses, or at least most of them, are circular,...hole, just big enough to admit a man bent double. The side-walls are about four feet and a half high, but the roof is lofty, and peaked to a point at the... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 546 Seiten
...axes, indeed, are a little different; some, at least, which may be owing to fancy as much as custom. Their houses, or at least most of them, are circular,...hole, just big enough to admit a man bent double. The side-walls are about four feet and a half high, but the roof is lofty, and peaked to a point at the... | |
 | General history - 1815 - 802 Seiten
...axes, indeed, are a little different ; some, at least, which may be owing to fancy as much as custom. Their houses, or at least most of them, are circular,...hole, just big enough to admit a man bent double. The side-walls are about four feet and a half high, but the roof is lofty, and peaked to a point at the... | |
 | John Campbell - 1818 - 520 Seiten
...and laughing very heartily at their ridiculous disappointment. Their houses or huts are circular as a bee-hive, and full as close and warm. The entrance is by a square hole, big enough to admit a man bent double ; the side-walls four feet and a half high, the... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 530 Seiten
...axes, indeed, are a little different; some, at least, which may be owing to fancy as much as custom. Their houses, or at least most of them, are circular,...hole, just big enough to admit a man bent double. The side-walls are about four feet and a half high, but the roof is lofty, and peaked to a point at the... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 636 Seiten
...indeed, are a little different — some, at least — which may be owing to fancy as much as custom. Their houses, or at least most of them, are circular...hole, just big enough to admit a man bent double. The side-walls are about four feet and a half high ; but the roof is lofty, and peaked to a point at the... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 636 Seiten
...owing to fancy as much as custom. Their houses, or at least most of them, are circular ; sometiming like a beehive, and full as close and warm. The entrance is by a small door, or long square imole, just big enough to admit a man bent double. The side-walls are about four feet and a imaif high... | |
 | Archibald Wright Murray - 1874 - 364 Seiten
...particulars are added, which we must pass over. Of their houses he gives the following description : — " Their houses, or at least most of them, are circular,...something like a bee-hive, and full as close and warm (they look very much like a hay-rick) ; the entrance is by a small door, or long square hole, just... | |
 | James Cook - 1880 - 538 Seiten
...or warriors. Their houses, or, at least, most of them, are circular, and something like a beehive. The entrance is by a small door, or long square hole, just big enough to admit a man bent double. In most of them they found two fireplaces, and as there was no vent for the smoke but the door, the... | |
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