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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. 



feet liigli (Fig. S). The interior of a hut is anything l>nt pheasant to the*, 

 senses of the European -, since it usually contains, in addition to the fam- 

 ily, one or more cows, several sheep and goats, and a variable number of 

 fowls. As a fire is kept constantly burning, the smoke, heat, and stench 

 are frightful, The house yard is kept swept (dean, and the whole sur- 

 rounded by a high liedge of dracieiux (Fig-. 9). The cattle are kept shut 

 up most of the time, and their grass is cut and brought in by the women. 

 Sometimes, as in Rombo and Useri, it is uecessary to go long distances, 

 even eight or ten miles, into the plain to obtain good fodder. 



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Fiji. 7. 



Method op HousE-BUiLDiNfi, Moshi. 



Mt. Kiliiua-Njaro, East Africa. 



(From photograph in I". S. N. M. ) 



As agriculturists, it would be diflflcult to find superiors to the Wa 

 Chaga. Their neat little fields of grain are hedged in with dracj^na, 

 the soil hoed, weeded, and watered with the greatest care. The irriga- 

 tion canals are constructed with great ingenuity, sometimes commenc- 

 ing many thousand feet up the mountain, carried down tlirough the 

 primeval forests, around ridges, over gullies on little aqueducts, until 

 they reach the particular valley for whicli they were intended. 



The language is a variety of Bantu, but being, like all savage tongues, 

 very deficient in uouns; cmginally many words have been introduced 



