[Guadeloupe, Saint Vincent, 'Cluett' Voyage] 1915-1916
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four the same size as the other, built of (57) [illegible] partly excavated in the sloping bank and the walls completed and the roof built of stones covered over with turf. The entrance passage was so low that I had to crouch nearly double to traverse it, avoiding with but partial success the dog offal covering the ground. The single room contained merely the bed platform as furniture, and was heated by the open cooking-fire in the middle of the grossed earthen or stone floor and was lighted by means of an immovable window containing formed of six little panes of glass in the western wall. The smoke from the fire found its way out as best it might through a