A6 SINGULAR VILLAGES. 
feet from the ground, and holds ten huts, the 
second, about eight feet high, has three huts, and 
the upper story, if it may be so called, contains 
four. The ascent to these is made by notches cut 
in the supporting poles, and the huts are built with 
twigs thatched with straw, and will contain two per- 
sons conveniently. On a former excursion these 
travellers visited several deserted villages built in a 
similar manner between the Moriqua and Leutlecan 
Rivers, as well as in other places. These, however, 
were erected on stakes instead of trees, about eight 
feet above the ground, and about forty feet square, 
larger in some places, and containing about seventy 
or eighty huts. ‘The inhabitants sit under the shade 
of these platforms during the day, and retire at night 
to the huts above *. 
The accompanying drawing of this inhabited tree 
was taken by Mr. Moffatt of Litakou, who also 
visited this spot. The natives represented in the 
foreground have been added to complete the picture, 
and to show how slight and inefficient their weapons 
are, to defend themselves from the attacks of those 
fierce invaders by which they are surrounded and 
so liable to be assailed. 
* South African Quarterly Journal, September, 1830, 
