He roamed the woods by day with his dog and apprentices, and at night slept in the open air or in a rude shed hastily constructed of leaves and skins, which served as a house, and which he called after the Indian name, "ajoupa" or ❋ Clarence Henry Haring (1922)
An old clearing soon appeared, provided with the welcome accommodation of an _ajoupa_, or shed built upon four posts. ❋ Various (N/A)
These huge forms, soldered together at the waist like Chang and Eng, and clothed with shaggy woods up to the top, had been the guardian watchers over their days in the ajoupa at Maniri. ❋ Various (N/A)
The most practical reminder of the quest of cinchona which the travelers found was an occasional _ajoupa_ alone in the wilderness, with a broken pot and a rusted knife or axe beneath it -- witness that some eager searcher had traveled the road before themselves. ❋ Various (N/A)
During the absence of the cascarilleros a flat calm reigned in the ajoupa of Maniri. ❋ Various (N/A)
After a longer stay in the island, one discovers also that in almost every room of every dwelling -- stone residence, wooden cottage, or palm - thatched ajoupa -- there is a _chapelle_: that is, a sort of large bracket fastened to the wall, on which crosses or images are placed, with vases of flowers, and lamps or wax-tapers to be burned at night. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
She approaches the ajoupa: both men remove their big straw hats; and both salute her with a simultaneous "Bonjou ', Manzell." ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
The child lived and thrived; -- she is now a pretty chocolate-colored girl of eight, who follows her mother every day from their mountain ajoupa down to the city, and back again, -- bearing a little trait upon her head. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
-- "Ça ka fai moin pè," exclaims Gabou, turning his face towards the ajoupa. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
Not even in default of houses a cabin, a hut, an ajoupa, or a wigwam? ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
After having wearied us for a long time with their complaints of the bad harvest, and the mischief done by the tigers among the turtles, at the time of laying their eggs, they conducted us beneath an ajoupa, that rose in the centre of the Indian camp. ❋ Unknown (1851)
We supposed that a small wood of plantain-trees concealed from us the hut of the farm; but this man, so proud of his nobility and the colour of his skin, had not taken the trouble of constructing even an ajoupa, or hut of palm-leaves. ❋ Unknown (1851)
Within the ajoupa, a young man is extended on a mat in a profound sleep. ❋ Eug��ne Sue (1830)
The huge trunk of a dead tree, still standing, but much bent, and with its summit reaching to the roof of the ajoupa, rises from the midst of the brushwood. ❋ Eug��ne Sue (1830)
Indian fig-leaves, covers the cabin; at one end is a square opening, which serves for a window, shut in with a fine lattice-work of vegetable fibres, so as to prevent the reptiles and venomous insects from creeping into the ajoupa. ❋ Eug��ne Sue (1830)
The soil, ever marshy, notwithstanding the insupportable heat, disappears beneath an inextricable mass of creepers, ferns, and tufted reeds, of a freshness and vigor of vegetation almost incredible, reaching nearly to the top of the ajoupa, which lies hid like a nest among the grass. ❋ Eug��ne Sue (1830)
An ajoupa, or hut, made of cane mats, suspended from long bamboos, which are driven far into the ground, rises in the midst of the bluish shadows cast by a tuft of trees, whose glittering verdure resembles green porcelain. ❋ Eug��ne Sue (1830)
He was bringing a message to his master, who, during the great heat of the day was reposing in the ajoupa, which stood at some distance from the house he inhabited. ❋ Eug��ne Sue (1830)
Djalma was lying in such a manner and so near the door of the ajoupa, which opened inwards, that, were it moved in the least, he must be instantly awakened. ❋ Eug��ne Sue (1830)
Holding his breath, he remained quite still for a moment; then, advancing upon his hands and knees, pushing aside the leaves so gently, that not the slightest noise could be heard, he arrived cautiously and slowly at the trunk of the dead tree, the summit of which nearly touched the roof of the ajoupa. ❋ Eug��ne Sue (1830)
