not active and the rajah driven. They by any odd preferred money rather than clothes although many of the men would give a small bribe for a pair of pants. The houses are built either of stone and turf or turf alone up to a certain height where a circle gl[illegible] even all. Some of the houses are double. Inside all is novel and in excellent shape. The walls are covered with pictures it may be a chromo Christ or a wood engraving of Bismarck. Any picture will do. Then they have small orn- amented boxes of European origin, cups and cancers etc. One side of the room has two windows and out of the same side out a door leading into a door and narrow tunnel again closed by a door. Opposite this side upon an elevated platform are the sleeping places and so far as I could see there were three or four beds. They were rolled up and leaned against the wall. Near the raised platform stood a large round iron draining stove in which turf is burnt. The odor of these rooms had a fishy smell but I cannot say that they were particularly dirty. The costumes of the natives is much