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over the porch and a portion of the 

 with sharp knives to a smooth edge, 

 aspect, and is a great improvement on 

 usually terminate an African's thatch, 

 the outer walls of the porch and front 

 with canework. This is made of the 

 packed closely together in an upright 



verandah, the grass is shaved off 



This gives the house a very neat 



the untidy, weeping straws which 



The interior of the house and 



verandah are most neatly covered 



long stalks of the elephant grass 



position, and bound by transverse 



362. THE SPECIAL C0501ISSIONEB AND A CROWD OF EAGANDA GUESTS OX 'Jill: LA IE 

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bands of bast. This canework is almost a speciality of the Baganda, and 

 with it they clothe unsightly poles, which then become glistening columns 

 of pale gold. Doors are even made of this canework. The apex of the 

 roof is usually finished off by a cap composed of several flounces of 

 thatch, one on toj) of the other. 



A large house may contain, besides the central fireplace (generally 

 a raised dais of hard clay on which stand the three big round stones which 

 compose the African's grate), from one to five sleeping berths, usually 



