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Chap. LX. 
aperture near the top, through which the corn is 
taken in and out ; and on the whole they are not 
unlike the dove-cots of Egypt. In every courtyard 
there were one or more of these magazines ; and they 
far surpassed, in their whole appearance, the dwellings 
themselves, which, with a few exceptions, consisted 
of low huts, the whole of the courtyards being only 
surrounded by a frail fence, made of the stalks of the 
native corn, while, in many yards, one half of the 
circumference of the huts themselves, of which there 
were rarely more than two, formed part of the fence. 
I went in the afternoon to pay my compliments to 
the chief. The portal of his residence has quite a 
stately appearance, as shown in the accompanying 
woodcut, bearing evident testimony to an attempt at 
