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fully good specimens of carpentering, each having two leaves 

 working on pivots fitting into holes in the lintel and threshold. 

 Where the leaves met they overlapped, and were halved into 

 each other. The front door was also carved on the outside, 

 with the pattern traced in red, white, and black, and on each 

 side were three carved pillars. 



September 

 1874. 



HUT AT KIFUilA. 



The floor was of clay, raised eighteen inches from the ground, 

 and polished until quite slippery. The walls were seven feet 

 in height, and built of poles about a foot apart, with stout slabs 

 adzed out of logs between them, and kept in place by battens. 

 The roof ran up in the form of a dome twenty feet high on the 

 inside, and was made of slender rods fitting at the apex into a 

 round piece of wood carved in concentric circles and painted 

 black and white, wdiile two or three horizontal rows of rods gave 

 strength and rigidity to tlie structure. This frame-work was 

 covered with fine long grass, laid quite smoothly in horizon- 

 tal lengths, and over this was a heavy thatch about two feet 

 thick, coming down to the ground and evenly trimmed, the 



