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THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



round hole about a foot in diameter ; this is the only aperture. 

 At sunset, when the children have been fed, they are put to bed 

 in the simplest manner, by being thrust head-foremost through 

 the hole in the wall, assisted, if refractory, by a smack behind, 

 until the night-nursery shall have received the limited number. 

 The aperture is then stopped up with a bundle of grass, if the 

 nights are cool. The children lie together on the clay floor like 

 a litter of young puppies, and breathe the foulest air until morn- 



WOMEN, WITH THEIR CHILDREN, ASSISTING IN THE HUNT. 



ing, at which time they are released from the suffocating oven, 

 to be suddenly exposed to the chilly day-break. Their naked 

 little bodies shiver round a fire until the sun warms them, but 

 the seeds of diarrhoea and dysentery have already been sown. 



ADVENTURE WITH A LIONESS. 



Ox December 30th, a week after the hunt just described, 

 another hunt was arranged for, which was attended with even 



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greater excitement than the first, though the preparations were 



