ABSTRACT
The ordinary dwelling-house is called nume in Sa’a, and nima in Ulawa. A house built near a garden for the temporary storage of produce is called hale, and a mere shelter is apaapa. To build a house is tohu nume. House sites are called hull nume, and a man will build on his own site on land belonging to his kindred, or if he is a stranger he will ask permission to build. In certain hamlets at Sa’a, there is more or less of an appearance of house mounds, but speaking generally there is nothing to correspond to the Fijian yavu to which Dr Codrington refers (M., p. 48). This is owing to the frequent changes of location in the past, and to the absence of anything like settled towns. In old days on Mala, the people who lived inland on the hills moved their dwellings according to wherever they were cultivating. There were certain villages on the hills at the south end of Ulawa that were reported to have done the same.
