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sions, and others much smaller. Many families require, for these 
purposes, an additional corn-house, to contain several more such 
jars. This house is placed in the back-yard, and is built in the same 
style, and of the same materials, as the principal house ; but is 
always smaller and enclosed only with a single wall ; the doorway or 
opening taking a sixth, or even a fourth, of the circumference. 
Besides this hut, there is commonly, in the enclosure of the 
kosies, a small hut for their immediate servant or attendant. This is 
also placed in the back-yard. 
There is one quality for which the Bachapins, and probably the 
other tribes of Bichuanas, are greatly to be admired, and in which 
they excel all the more southern inhabitants of this part of Africa ; 
the neatness, good order and cleanness of their dwellings. Nothing 
can exceed their neatness ; and by cleanness I mean to say, the great 
carefulness which they show to remove all rubbish and every thing 
unsightly : not a twig, nor loose pebble, nor dust, nor even a straw, 
is to be seen on the floor within the fence ; nothing lies out of its 
place, and it is evident that in the better houses they are continually 
attending to these circumstances. The houses of the poorer people 
are not so remarkable for this care ; but still they exhibit much 
neatness. 
It is remarkable that the dwelling of the Chief and that of his 
brother Mollemmi were less important in size and outward appear- 
ance, than those of many of the inferior chieftains. The perspec- 
tive elevation and plan, at the end of this chapter, were drawn from 
Mollemmi s house ; and Mattivi's was in no respect different from this, 
unless, as I had no opportunity of examining its interior arrange- 
ment, it might possibly have been differently divided within. They 
were both of smaller dimensions than those which are given in the 
9th plate; or than those of the engraving at page 511. which is the 
representation of a house of the largest size. By referring to the 
explanatory note to that plate, and to the preceding descriptions, the 
different parts of these two engravings, will be easily understood. 
A dwelling house belonging to Serrakutu the Chief's uncle, was also 
of the largest size ; a circumstance to be ascribed perhaps more to 
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