Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 72
n thesemi-idleness which they are used to in theirfar-off, lovely and fertile island, they whittledout the frames for their dwellings, braided thewalls in gay-colored mosaics, thatched the lowroofs, and outlined their slant lines with blackcocoanut fiber. They set up the hummingestlittle corn-stalk… … A JAVANESE GIRL. followed them everywherewith a sort of palanquin,or litter, upon which theyplaced the odds and ends,and carried them off. Inthat way all was kept asclean as a swept floor. These Java people werevery much the color oftheir own coffee. Theywere the gentlest, thrifti-est, most cordial…
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