 | 1846 - 910 pages
...houses belonging to Malay residents. The common habitation, as rude as it is enormous, measures 504 feet in length ; and the front room, or street, is the entire length of the building, and 21 feet broad. The back part is divided by mat-partitions into the private apartments of the various... | |
 | Sir Henry Keppel, Sir James Brooke, James (Rajah of Sarawak) - Borneo - 1846 - 398 pages
...houses belonging to Malay residents. " The common habitation, as rude as it is enormous, measures 594 feet in length, and the front room, or street, is the entire length of the building, and 21 feet broad. The back part is divided by mat-partitions into the private apartments of the various... | |
 | Sir Henry Keppel, Sir James Brooke, James (Rajah of Sarawak) - Borneo - 1846 - 400 pages
...houses belonging to Malay residents. " The common habitation, as rude as it is enormous, measures 594 feet in length, and the front room, or street, is the entire length of the building, and 21 feet broad. The back part is divided by mat-partitions into the private apartments of the various... | |
 | University magazine - 1846 - 780 pages
...population. " The common habitation, as rude as it is enormous, measures five hundred and ninety-four feet, and the front room, or street, is the entire length of the building, and twenty-one i'c'ct broad. The back part is divided by mat partitions into the private apartments of the various... | |
 | 1847 - 828 pages
...settlement of the Sibnowan Dyaks : — " The common habitation, as rude as it is enormous, measures 594 feet in length, and the front room or street is the...twenty-one feet broad. The back part is divided by mat partitions into the private apartments of the various families, and of these there are forty-five... | |
 | 1848 - 594 pages
...houses belonging to Malay residents. ' The common habitation, as rude as it is enormous, measures 594 feet in length, and the front room, or street, is...apartments of the various families, and of these there are 40 Borneo. forty-five separate doors leading from the public apartment. The widowers and young unmarried... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 602 pages
...small huts, for the whole population of about 400 souls ! This remarkable tenement is 594 feet long, and the front room or street is the entire length of the building, and 21 feet broad. The floor is 12 feet above the ground, and it is reached by means of the trunk of a... | |
 | 1848 - 596 pages
...small huts, for the whole population of about 400 souls ! This remarkable tenement is 594 feet long, and the front room or street is the entire length of the building, and 21 feet broad. The floor is 12 feet above the ground, and it is reached by means of the trunk of a... | |
 | James Greenwood - Anthropology - 1863 - 448 pages
...one building serving for almost the entire population. Tungong is enclosed by a slight stockade, and within this defence there is one enormous house for...twenty-one feet broad. The back part is divided by mat partitions into the private apartments of the various families, and of these there are forty-five... | |
 | James Greenwood - Conduct of life - 1863 - 478 pages
...one building serving for almost the entire population. Tungong is enclosed by a slight stockade, and within this defence there is one enormous house for...twenty-one feet broad. The back part is divided by mat partitions into the private apartments of the various families, and of these there are forty-five... | |
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The back part is divided by mat partitions into the private apartments of the various families, and of these there are forty-five separate doors leading from the public apartment. The widowers and young unmarried men occupy the public room, as only those... 
