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their talk to each other they were saying, " This is 

 so-and-so, and this so-and-so." "Yes," I struck in, 

 " and don't you think this is so-and-so ? ' Thus led 

 on, I got them to give their opinion of most of the 

 figures. About some they were quite certain ; about 





FIG. 16. (lunrr OF PICTURES A, I. VIA i:i- CAPIBARA, 

 KIVKK CASIQUI MM. 



others they would only speculate. Of all the figures 

 the one marked G (Fig. 16) was that whose origin 

 seemed clearest both to them and to me. It repre- 

 sents a mandiocca-oven (called budari in Barre) a 

 large circular dish of fireproof pottery, supported 

 on a wall of mud-masonry, which has an opening 



