Water-sprinklers play on the roses and other country garden flowers surrounding his stone and thatch house.

They build small thatch houses for sleeping and use the trunks of breadfruit trees for boat-building.

They set up villages -- scattered groups of thatch houses and cultivated gardens -- where conditions favored farming.

Police later burned nearby thatch houses in an attempt to flush him with smoke.

Despite extensive construction of new housing, in poorer regions some farm families still lived in traditional dwellings, such as mud-brick and thatch houses or, in some regions, cave houses.