VI.
Concerning their Houses, Diet, Housewifry, Salutation, Apparel.
Having already treated of their Religion, we now come to their secular concerns.

And first we will lead you into their houses, and shew you how they live.
[Their houses.] Their Houses are small, low, thatched Cottages, built with sticks, daubed with clay, the walls made very smooth.

For they are not permitted to build their houses above one story high, neither may they cover with tiles, nor whiten their walls with lime, but there is a Clay which is as white, and that they use sometimes.

They employ no Carpenters, or house-builders, unless some few noble-men, but each one buildeth his own dwelling.

In building whereof there is not so much as a nail used; but instead of them every thing which might be nailed, is tyed with rattans and other strings, which grow in the woods in abundance; whence the builder hath his Timber for cutting.