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houses are usually well built, aud consist of clay, 
the greater part of them including a tolerably large 
courtyard. Our house also was spacious; but, on 
account of my heavy luggage, I was obliged to take 
up my quarters in the open segifa, or antechamber, 
which was greatly exposed to mosquitoes. In front 
of my quarters there was a handsome square of tole- 
rably regular shape ; and towards the north a con- 
siderable tank spread out, along which led the path 
into the fields : for, the whole place being situated in 
a depression of the ground, all the moisture of the 
neighbourhood collects here. 
The village is surrounded by a light stockade of 
two rows of bushes ; and round about the place there 
are several ponds of water. Turtles are very com- 
mon here, and the soil swarms with ants. The place 
was tolerably well provided with corn, and I bought 
here twenty mudd for one hundred dra of Gando cot- 
ton strips, equal in reality to nine hundred shells, but 
the mudd of Kiibo is smaller than that of Tinge, being 
about two thirds of its size, and in the form of a 
round dish, while that of Tinge is like a pitcher. 
The daily allowance of corn for a horse cost about 
one hundred shells. 
A very heavy thunder-storm, accompanied with 
violent rain, broke out in the evening ; and the clayey 
soil of the country which we had to traverse obliged 
me to stay here the following day. The delay caused 
me great disappointment, as the spreading of the 
news of my journey could not fail to increase its 
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