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FROM the front of one end of the council house, which was also used for kava making, protruded a structure in shape something between the bow of a ship and an immense boot. Once Curtis and Torre had climbed up one of the carved pillars that supported the roofsome twenty feet or so and discovered that the affair was cleverly made of stout bamboo lashed together with sennit, painted, lined with mats, and thatched.
Apparently its only use was that of ornament. But it made a very secure hiding-place, whence, by peering under the eaves, the pair could see much of what was going on whilst themselves hidden.