Hottentot Bweltings in Genaaden Dal. 233 



rising grounds in the neighbourhood, and with their poverty- 

 stricken aspect impart a somewhat melancholy impression. 

 These are built of loam, low in the roof, as though intended 

 for a stunted race of men, and rarely have windows, so that the 

 door is, generally speaking, the largest aperture in the entire 

 building. Our Malay driver laughed at them, and called them 

 oete kripp (oxen stalls). 



There seem to be three distinct kinds of these dwellings, 

 which apparently indicate so many grades of social and 

 pecuniary consideration among the resident Hottentot families. 

 The first sort, which consists simply of a single apartment, 

 serving at once for kitchen, work-shop, and sleeping place, and 

 receiving air and light through a narrow, low-pitched door- way, 

 is that most usually met with, and may not unaptly be compared 

 to a bee-hive. The next class is of a better description, and 

 may at once and definitely be distinguished from the first-men- 

 tioned, in so far as it possesses a second room, which, if dark 

 and windowless, is at any rate partitioned ofi^, and serves as a 

 sleeping apartment. Finally, the third kind, which can only 



