392 A JOURNEY IN 
The annexed print will convey a tolerably good idea of 
a Booshnanas establishment, and the ground-plan of the 
cabin will be understood from the following sketch. 
The whole is covered with a tent-shaped roof, supported 
■on poles built into the wall, and forming in front an open 
colonnade. The roof is carefully and compactly thatched with 
reeds, or the straw of the holcus, and bound together with 
leathern thongs. All the houses were enclosed by a fence 
made of strong reeds, of the straw of holcus, or twigs of wood ; 
and within this enclosure, contiguous to the dwelling-house, 
there stood a large clay vessel erected upon a raised floor of 
the same material, which served as a store for containing 
their grain and pulse. These granaries had the appearance 
of large oil jars, the capacity of some of them being not less 
than 200 gallons. They are raised from the ground on 
three legs, are from six to nine feet high and, like the 
dwelling-houses, are covered Avith a pointed roof of thatch. 
