Bohio

He grew up in a bohio of dirt floors, and the structure was the kind used by the Tainos, our old Arawak ancestors. ❋ Carmen Agra Deedy (2005)

It is possible that youths from a community such as this might want to return, but not to the isolated bohio. ❋ Unknown (1977)

If you offer him that isolated bohio on top of that hill, that youngster will not be willing to come back to the countryside. ❋ Unknown (1977)

Many youths who leave to attend school and even many youths in the military services do not want to come back to the isolated bohio. ❋ Unknown (1977)

The usual buildings upon such places are a dwelling house, a drying-house, a few sheds for cattle, and perhaps a small _bohio_ (hut), or two, made in the rudest manner, for the shelter of the hands, who, upon some of the very largest places number twenty or thirty, though not always negroes -- for this portion of the labor of the island seems to be performed by the lower classes of whites. ❋ E. R. Billings (N/A)

He was straining his gaze upon the door of the bohio in the immediate expectation of seeing Esteban emerge. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)

From the blazing bohio ran two armed men, brushing sparks from their clothing. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)

A bohio, hidden away far up the Yumuri, and so insignificant as to escape attention. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)

Refugees passed the bohio, bound farther into the hills, and ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)

Then he ran an approving eye over the new bohio and the new garden plot which Evangelina had courageously begun. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)

The roof and walls of the bohio had fallen away to ashes, its skeleton of poles and its few pieces of crude furniture alone were smoldering when he called his men together and gave the word to go. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)

It was not until well along toward evening that Rosa and O'Reilly felt any desire to take stock of the contents of that jewel-box, but finally, with heads together and with backs to the door of the bohio, they made a furtive examination. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)

Late on the second day after the battle Asensio returned to his bohio. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)

Las Casas, I. 315, says in regard to the latter: "To call it Bohio was to misunderstand the interpreters, since throughout all these islands, where the language is practically the same, they call the huts in which they live _bohio_ and this great island ❋ Various (1884)