 | William Knighton - Sri Lanka - 1845 - 424 pages
...there is not so much as a nail used ; but instead of them, every thing which might be nailed is tied with rattans and other strings, which grow in the...neither doth the king allow them to build better. The great people have handsome and commodious houses. They have commonly two buildings, one opposite... | |
 | University magazine - 1849 - 836 pages
...whiten their walls with lime ; but there is a clay which is as white, and that they use sometimes. The poorest sort have not above one room in their...few above two, unless they be great men ; neither Jvth the king allow them to build better. The great people bave handsome and commodious houses. They... | |
 | Henry Charles Sirr - Sri Lanka - 1850 - 434 pages
...whiten their walls with lime ; but there is a clay which is as white, and that they use sometimes. The poorest sort have not above one room in their...neither doth the king allow them to build better. The great people have handsome and commodious houses. They have commonly two buildings — one opposite... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Art - 1864 - 740 pages
...allowed to build "above one story high," or " to cover with tiles." " Tho poorer sort," says he, " have not above one room in their houses ; few above two, unless they be the great men. Neither doth the king allow them to build better." So tenacious is the influence of... | |
 | Children's literature - 1865 - 1136 pages
...naiL Everything which might be nailed is tied with rattans and other strings which grow in the woods. The country being warm, many of them will not take...neither doth the king allow them to build better. They have commonly two buildings, one opposite to the other, joined together on each side with a wall, which... | |
 | 1849 - 954 pages
...whiten their walls with lime ; but there is a clay which is as white, and that they use sometimes. The poorest sort have not above one room in their houses — few above two, unless they bo great mon ; neither doth the kiny allow them to build better. The great people have handsome and... | |
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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... 