This was accepted after a little more talk, and I immediately proceeded to take possession.
The house was a good large one, raised as usual about seven feet on posts, the walls about three or four feet more, with a high-pitched roof.

The floor was of bamboo laths, and in the sloping roof way an immense shutter, which could be lifted and propped up to admit light and air.

At the end where this was situated the floor was raised about a foot, and this piece, about ten feet wide by twenty long, quite open to the rest of the house, was the portion I was to occupy.

At one end of this piece, separated by a thatch partition, was a cooking place, with a clay floor and shelves for crockery.

At the opposite end I had my mosquito curtain hung, and round the walls we arranged my boxes and other stores, fated up a table and seat, and with a little cleaning and dusting made the place look quite comfortable.