This feels like a very stupid question but how am I meant to use this area of protoboard on the Arduino XBee shield - these are straight through vias with no mid layer and so none of the holes are electrically connected. It's too small to sick a piece of breadboard to.

I was expecting it to be connected in rows like bread board / vero board but I've tested with a multimeter and nothing is connected - what am I missing?

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