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The houses are made with steep, double pitched, grass thatched roofs set up on a frame raised on 6 posts about 5-6 ft from the ground. The part below the [[strikethrough]] roof [[/strikethrough]] eaves is left open [[strikethrough]] so that [[/strikethrough]] in a majority of the houses so that as I rode slowly through avoiding dogs & children as best I could I had a clear view of the domestic arrangements of the people. Some of the houses have walls made by coarse wattling between the posts but these have such wide interstices that they offer no hindrance to the movements of the people inside & give the house the appearance of a huge bird cage-. I soon threaded my way through the village to the farther border where I found one of the open houses unoccupied & arranged to use it during my stay. I then saw that these houses have a store and sleeping room in the upper part made by putting a puncheon floor in on the frame that supports the roof and leaving a small square hole so that the people can enter from below by means of a notched log as ladder. The supply of corn kept on hand is stored here & the owner of the place occupied by us was engaged in bringing in corn from his field down the valley & storing the unhusked ears. Oxen are commonly used for pack animals here & on both cattle & other animals the pack saddle is made of coarse rushes forming a long thick pad. The corn is brought in in large strong nets one on each side of the animal. About 2 bushels being in each net. Here as down at the town of Santo Domingo we found the