 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction VOL.XXXII - 1838 - 474 pagina’s
...grass, or, if intended to be more permanent, it is lined within, as well as covered without, with the lattice-work and plastering: or it is boarded with...rush. One or two low rough seats, or stools, a coarse earthen jar or two, a number of tortumas (calabashes) in the shape of basins and bottles, made from... | |
 | 1838 - 472 pagina’s
...grass, or, if intended to be more permanent, it is lined within, as well as covered without, with the lattice-work and plastering: or it is boarded with...formed by splitting the rind of the cabbage palm. Il'itbe a place intended only for temporary purposes, then the walls, as well as the roof, are merely... | |
 | 1839 - 496 pagina’s
...grass ; or, if intended to be more permanent, it is lined within, as well as covered without, with the lattice-work and plastering, or it is boarded with...rush. One or two low rough seats, or stools, a coarse earthen jar or two, a number of tortumas (calabashes) in the shape of basins and bottles, made from... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1839 - 776 pagina’s
...sort of basket-work ; afterwards it is either plastered over on the outside with a mixture of earth, clay, and grass, or, if intended to be more permanent,...rush. One or two low rough seats, or stools, a coarse earthen jar or two, a number of tortumas (calabashes) in the shape of basins and bottles, made from... | |
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... lattice-work and plastering : or it is boarded with narrow plank, formed by splitting the rind of the cabbage palm. If it be a place intended only for temporary purposes, then the walls, as well as the roof, are merely thatched with palm leaves, or... 