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fmall rivulet interfered it in the middle, 
and difcharged itlelf into the river. All the 
huts, to the number of almoft forty, built 
upon a fpace about fix hundred feet fquare, 
formed feveral crefcents, and were all con- 
nefted together by fmall enclofures belong- 
ing to each. In thefe every different family 
fhut up, in the day time, their calves and 
their lambs, which are not fuffered to follow 
their mothers ; and which fuck only in the 
morning and evening, when the women 
milk the cows and the fhe goats. Befides 
thefe, there were three large enclofures well 
fenced round, which were deftined for con- 
fining, during the night only, the whole 
flocks of the horde. 
The huts, confl:ru£ted like thofe of the Hot- 
tentots in the colonies, were eight or nine feet 
in diameter, and were covered with ox or fheep 
Ikins, but more commonly with mats. They 
had only one opening, very narrow and low; 
and it was in the middle of the hut that the 
family kindled their fire. The thick fmoke 
with which thefe kennels were filled, and 
which had no other vent but the door, added 
to the flench which they always retain, 
would have flifled any European who might 
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