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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. XLV. 
bed-rooms or sleeping-rooms. They were exactly the 
same at each of the four corners ; but the north-east 
corner of the yard claimed particular attention, owing 
to another very remarkable apartment being there 
joined to the granary, which, as it is best adapted to 
give a clear idea of the homely comfort of these people, 
however low the scale of their civilization may be, has 
been made use of to represent, in the plate opposite, a 
scene of the domestic life of these people, besides 
that its ground-plan is given in the accompanying 
woodcut. 
It was a round uncovered apartment of about 
twenty-four feet in diameter, inclosed by a clay wall 
of about seven feet high, and a foot in thickness, and 
carefully polished at the corners. The doorway was 
about four feet high by about two feet wide; enter- 
ing through this you had on your left a bank of clay 
running parallel with the wall, and inclosing a space 
of about two and a half feet in breadth. It was a 
foot and a quarter high, and one foot broad, and ran 
round more than half the circumference of the room, 
but, in order to afford easy access to the narrow 
space between it and the wall, had an opening in the 
