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FORM AND SIZE OP HOUSES. 



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DWELLING-HOUSE ANT> CORN-STORES. 



with high palisades, consisting of stout poles about eight or 

 nine feet in height, fixed firmly in the ground at short in- 

 tervals from each other. The interior arrangements of these 

 inclosures were most intricate. They comprised the dwell- 

 ing-houses of masters and attendants, open spaces devoted to 

 amusement and consultation, granaries, pig-sties, roosting- 

 places for fowls, the cattle kraal, and so forth. 



.Their houses are of a circular form. The lower part con- 

 sists of slender poles, about two feet six inches high, driven 

 into the ground, and farther secured by means of cord, &c., 

 the whole being plastered over with clay. The roof, which 

 is formed of rushes, is not unlike that of a bee-hive. The 

 height of the whole house, from the ground to the top of the 

 "hive," does not much exceed four feet, while in circumfer- 

 ence it is about sixteen. 



They store the grain in gigantic baskets, generally manu- 

 factured from palm-leaves, plastered with clay, and covered 



