The former are always more or less ornamented with carving and have high-pitched roofs and overhanging eaves.

The gable ends and all the chief posts and beams are sometimes covered with exceedingly tasteful carved work, and this is still more the case in the district of Menangkabo, further west.

The floor is made of split bamboo, and is rather shaky, and there is no sign of anything we should call furniture.

There are no benches or chairs or stools, but merely the level floor covered with mats, on which the inmates sit or lie.

The aspect of the village itself is very neat, the ground being often swept before the chief houses; but very bad odours abound, owing to there being under every house a stinking mud-hole, formed by all waste liquids and refuse matter, poured down through the floor above.