How we are sheltered; a geographical reader (1906)
Chamberlain, James Franklin, 1869-1943 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co.,ltd. · leaf 87
firmly in the ground,the floor of the house being five or ten feet abovethe surface. If you were to enter one of thesehouses, you would do so by means of a shortladder instead of by a flight of steps. Do youwonder why people live in this way? It is TO HOW WE ARE SHELTERED because the ground is so… … FiG. 26.—Filipino Homes. penters do not make as much noise as our car-penters do, nor do they leave as many niceblocks about the new buildings. Often the walls of the houses are made of nipapalm. The walls are really nothing but matsmade of nipa. When a man wishes to build a FILIPINO HOUSES 71…
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