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Before the end of the autumn Britomarte's house was completed. A rough house it was, indeed; not at all like those of the north temperate zone, yet possessed of some advantages peculiar to itself.
Its architect was limited in the matter of hand tools and of building materials; for the first he had to depend upon the carpenter's box rescued from the wreck, and for the second upon the cocoa-palm trees and the mountain rocks.