104 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
tributed to the company; the king saying he drank only 
wine, and retiring, as he told me, to order dmner. The 
moment he disappeared the company began to scramble 
for a sup of the rum, and one fellow, dropping his dirty 
cap in the bason, as if by accident, contrived to snatch 
it out again well soaked, and sucked it with great satis- 
faction. 
While dinner was preparing we walked over the banza, 
accompanied by some of the chief men. It is situated on 
a small plain on a summit of ahill, and consists of about 
30 dwelling places or tenements, each composed of two or 
three huts, within a square enclosure of reeds matted ; the 
huts are composed of the same materials, and consist of 
two sides and two end pieces, which they call walls, and 
two other pieces for roofs; so that a house, ready to put 
together, may be purchased for the same price as four fowls, 
and in five minutes may be made ready for occupation; the 
entrance is by a square door in one of the sides, just large 
enough to. crawl in at, and opposite to it is a window; both 
of which openings are closed at night with shutters of the 
same fabric as the walls. The Chenoo’s tenement differs 
in no other respect from the common ones, than in contain- 
ing one large apartment, a little better lighted and aired, 
and in being surrounded by a double fence, forming a 
