I took the first opportunity to enter a Goldee house and study the customs of the people.

A Goldee dwelling for permanent habitation has four walls and a roof.

The sides and ends are of hewn boards or small poles made into a close fence, which is generally double and has a space six or eight inches wide filled with grass and leaves.

Inside and out the dwelling is plastered with mud, and the roofs are thatch or bark held in place by poles and stones.

Sometimes they are entirely of poles.