Show huts on stilts the early german and gallic dwellings were mere huts some raised above the ground on stilts and only accessible by ladders like many ot of the hous houses ses ot of new guinea at the present time and others resembling somewhat the primitive cabins of the prehistoric lake dwellers their roofs were low lo 10 watched thatched with coarse straw find and reeds ani and there was as usually but one window high up under the eaves it was it a long time before these were displaced b by y more solid structures |