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and I put up cheerfully with the little trouble which 
she gave me from time to time by calling at the door 
and begging me to hand to her some little articles 
of her simple household furniture. My three people 
were so sick that they lay like so many corpses on 
the ground ; and their condition prevented us from 
setting out even the following day, notwithstanding 
the inhospitable manner in which we were treated 
here, so that I had ample leisure to study minutely 
the architecture of my residence, of which I here 
subjoin a ground=plan. 
The hut, measuring about 
twelve feet in diameter, was 
built in the manner most usual 
in these regions — namely, of clay 
walls, with a thatched roof. The 
door, a little elevated above the 
floor, was three feet high, and 
fifteen inches wide, and not at all 
adapted for very stout persons. From the wall at the 
right of the door (a) ran another wall, " garuwel 
siido," of the same height, but unconnected with the 
roof, right across the hut in an oblique line, to the 
length of about six feet, separating one part of 
the dwelling, and securing to it more privacy. In 
this compartment was the bed (c), consisting of a 
frame made of branches, and spread over pilasters of 
clay about three feet high. In the most sequestered 
part of the hut, in the corner formed by the round 
inclosing wall and the oblique one, at the top of the bed 
