Chap. XXXIV. 
sara'wu. 
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It was a group of three huts, situated in the midst 
of a very spacious outer yard 
which was surrounded by a 
light fence of corn stalks. The 
huts consisted of clay walls 
with a thatched roof of very 
careful workmanship, and were 
joined together by clay walls. 
The most spacious of these huts (a), of about twelve 
feet in diameter, formed the entrance-hall and the 
parlour, being furnished with two doors or openings, 
one on the side of the outer, and the other on the side 
of the inner courtyard, from which the two other huts 
(b and c), destined for the women, had their only access. 
The outer opening or door of the chief hut (a), 
therefore, although rather small according to our 
ideas, was very large considering the general custom 
of the country, measuring three feet and a half in 
height, and sixteen inches in the widest part, its form 
being that of an egg. 
In this hut there was only one very large couch 
measuring seven feet and a half in length by five in 
width, and raised three feet above the floor, made of 
clay over a frame of wood, on the right side of the door, 
where the landlord used to receive his guests, the re- 
maining part of the hut being empty, and capable of 
receiving a good many people. Between the couch 
and the door there was a fire-place, or fugodi, or ftigo 
kannuram in Kanuri, "hobbunfrde" in Fulfiilde, 
formed by three stones of the same size. Of this airy 
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