They are of an oval figure, and the walls are made of sticks about four feet high placed close together.

From this rises a high conical roof thatched with grass.

The only opening is a door about three feet high.

The people are like the Timorese with frizzly or wavy hair and of a coppery brown colour.

The better class appear to have a mixture of some superior race which has much improved their features.
I saw in Coupang some chiefs from the island of Savu further west, who presented characters very distinct from either the Malay or Papuan races.