It had one window, or rather a small frame in which a window might, perhaps, once have been, but which was now empty.

The door was exceedingly low, and formed of rough boards, and the roof was covered with broad cocoa-nut and plantain leaves.

But every part of it was in a state of the utmost decay.

Moss and green matter grew in spots all over it.

The woodwork was quite perforated with holes; the roof had nearly fallen in, and appeared to be prevented from doing so altogether by the thick matting of creeping-plants and the interlaced branches which years of neglect had allowed to cover it almost entirely; while the thick, luxuriant branches of the bread-fruit and other trees spread above it, and flung a deep, sombre shadow over the spot, as if to guard it from the heat and the light of day.