56 Bird Hunting on the White Nile. 



made of a mixture of goats' hair and sheep's wool, 

 which is spun by the women on to a rough spindle in 

 the same way that they spin cotton. A primitive loom 

 is made on the ground with poles held in position by 



A DOME-SHAPED HUT wiTH A " VERANDAH." 



Tlie hut is made of matting and cloth. 



pegs driven into the sand, and the women while weaving 

 squat down under a temporary sun-shelter. These 

 movable dwellings were sometimes placed under trees, 

 but generally in the open, and there were seldom more 

 than six or eight together. The natives inhabiting 



