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Updated: May 7, 2025
It is bound on as a thatch in the manner we do straw, and not unfrequently over the galumpei; in which case the roof is so durable as never to require renewal, the iju being of all vegetable substances the least prone to decay, and for this reason it is a common practice to wrap a quantity of it round the ends of timbers or posts which are to be fixed in the ground.
The kulitkayu, before described, is sometimes employed for this purpose: the galumpei this is a thatch of narrow split bamboos, six feet in length, placed in regular layers, each reaching within two feet of the extremity of that beneath it, by which a treble covering is formed: iju this is a vegetable production so nearly resembling horse-hair as scarcely to be distinguished from it.
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