 | John Dunmore Lang - Aboriginal Australians - 1847 - 522 pages
...four huts together, fronting to one and the same fire. Each was semicircular, or circular, the roof conical, and from one side a flat roof stood forward like a portico, sup* Account of the English Colony in New South Wales. By David Collins, Esq., late Judge-Advocate... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - Aboriginal Australians - 1861 - 500 pages
...and from one side a flat roof stood forward like a portico, supported by two sticks. Most of these were close to the trunk of a tree, and they were covered,...and boughs. The interior of each looked clean, and to us passing in the rain, gave some idea not only of shelter, but even of comfort and happiness. They... | |
 | William Howitt - Australia - 1865 - 450 pages
...four together, fronting to one and the same hearth. Each hut was semicircular or circular, the roof conical, and from one side a flat roof stood forward...covered not as in other parts, by sheets of bark, but by a variety of materials, as reeds, grass, and boughs. The interior of each looked clean, and to us... | |
 | Robert Brough Smyth - Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...or four huts together fronting to one and the same fire. Each was semicircular or circular, the roof conical, and from one side a flat roof stood forward...and boughs. The interior of each looked clean, and to us, passing in the rain, gave some idea not only of shelter, but even of comfort and happiness."... | |
 | Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...or four huts together fronting to one and the same fire. Each was semicircular or circular, the roof conical, and from one side a flat roof stood forward...sticks. Most of them were close to the trunk of a tree j and they were covered —not, as in other parts, by sheets of bark, but with a variety of materials... | |
 | Thomas Worsnop - Aboriginal Australians - 1897 - 366 pages
...resembled bowers under yellow fragrant mimoste, some were isolated under the deeper shades of casuarinae, while others were placed more socially ; the roofs...grass, and boughs. The interior of each looked clean, aud gave some idea, not only of shelter from the weather, but even of comfort and happiness. They afforded... | |
 | George Firth Scott - Australia - 1910 - 378 pages
...four together, fronting to one and the same hearth. Each hut was semicircular, or circular, the roof conical, and from one side a flat roof stood forward...tree, and they were covered, not as in other parts, by a sheet of bark, but with a variety of materials, such as reeds, grass, and boughs. The interior of... | |
 | Karl-Erik Sveiby, Tex Skuthorpe - History - 2006 - 301 pages
...four together, fronting to one and the same hearth. Each hut was semicircular, or circular, the roof conical, and from one side a flat roof stood forward like a portico, supported by two sticks . . . The interior of each looked clean and . . . gave some idea not only of shelter, but even of comfort... | |
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Each was semicircular or circular, the roof conical, and from one side a flat roof stood forward like a portico supported by two sticks. Most of them were close to the trunk of a tree... 