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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. Chap. XXX. 
I immediately took possession of the room No. 8., 
which, although very small, was altogether the best, 
and was very cool during the hot hours of the day. 
Mr. Vogel too, when he afterwards arrived, immedi- 
ately fixed upon this room. There was a most splendid 
korna-tree in the neighbouring courtyard, which spread 
its shade over the terrace of this room, and over part 
of the small courtyard in front of it. In our own 
yard we had only a very fine specimen of a chedia or 
caoutchouc-tree (in the first yard, No. 3.), w r hich was 
afterwards a little damaged by Mr. Overweg's mon- 
keys, besides two very small korna-trees in the great 
yard around the huts Nos. 16 and 17. Having thus 
made myself as comfortable as possible, I began with- 
out delay to dig a well in the small court before the 
house, as we had to fetch the water from another 
11. Bedroom of Mr. Overweg, and afterwards of the Sappers, Corporal Church and 
Macguire. 
12. Small back courtyard. 
13. Storeroom. 
14. Outer enclosure of great courtyard in the beginning of our residence in Kukawa, 
This wall we afterwai'ds pulled down, when we obtained a very large yard for 
our horses and cattle. We, at times, had six horses and five or six cows. 
15. Very large well-built conical hut, with clay wall and thatched roof. In the 
interior there were two spacious raised claybanks of the kind called " dagali ' 
and " zinzin," and in the background a raised recess, separated by a wall two 
feet high, for luggage or corn. This hut I occupied during my last stay in 
Kukawa after my return from Timbuktu, when I built in front of it a large 
shed with that sort of coarse mats called sfggedf. 
16. Hut occupied by Maadi, a liberated slave, first in the service of Mr. Richardson, 
afterwards in that of Mr. Overweg, and lastly, Mr. Vogel's head servant. Having 
been wounded in the service of the expedition, a small pension has been 
granted to him. 
17. Hut occupied by another servant. 
18. Place for our cattle. 
1 9. A well. The sandy soil, as I have said, obliged us to change the place of our 
well very often, and we had great trouble in this respect. 
20. A clayhouse which, during the latter part of our stay, fell to ruins. 
