Mr.Otto also made arrangements for me with some of the native chiefs, to send men to cut wood, rattans, and bamboo the next day.
The villages of Mansinam and Dorey presented some features quite new to me.

The houses all stand completely in the water, and are reached by long rude bridges.

They are very low, with the roof shaped like a large boat, bottom upwards.

The posts which support the houses, bridges, and platforms are small crooked sticks, placed without any regularity, and looking as if they were tumbling down.

The floors are also formed of sticks, equally irregular, and so loose and far apart that I found it almost impossible to walls on them.