362 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 
to each other ; and as each piece is very light, a house can, 
at any time, be removed from one situation to another with 
great ease; sometimes the roofs are semi-circular. The 
value of one of these moveable houses is stated to be not 
more than the price of five or six fowls, and in five minutes 
may be put together. Permanent houses, however, such 
as those of the Chenoo, are made of the palm leaves with 
considerable skill, having several posts along the sides and 
ends, and covered externally with the blades or back rib 
of the palm leaf, bound together with a creeping plant in 
regular zig-zag figures. ‘They are also generally inclosed 
within a fence of reeds matted together. 
Their household utensils are very few, and as simple as 
the houses themselves. Baskets made of the fibres of the 
palm tree ; bowls and bottles of gourds or calabashes, or of 
the shell of the monkey bread-fruit (Adansonia) to hold 
their provisions and water, earthen vessels of their own mak- 
ing to boil their victuals, and wooden spoons to eat them ; a 
mat of grass thrown on a raised platform of palm-leaves, 
their only bedding. The articles of dress are equally 
sparing and simple, the common people being satisfied with 
a small apron tied round their loins, of a piece of baft, 
if they can get it, or of native grass-matting, made by the 
men; of the same grass they make caps, whose surface is 
raised and figured in a very beautiful manner, and the tex- 
ture so close that they will hold water. Rings of brass or 
iron are welded on the arms and ankles, and sometimes 
bracelets of lion’s teeth ; and the women generally contrive 
