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to his habitation, and introduced us to his wives and chl!» 
dren ; here alfo v;c faw numbers of v/omen, who gazed at 
" us with ailonifiiment* His houfe, like all the reft in the 
town, was built in a circular fornij being about fixteen feet 
' " in diameter. The bottom part, to the height of four feet 
" from the ground, was ftone laid in clay, and wooden fpars 
" ereded at certain diftances. On the eaft fide of the clrclej 
" about the fourth part of the houfe was open, the other three- 
" fourths entirely clofed. A round pointed roof covered the 
" whole in the form of a tent, well thatched with long reeds, 
" or with the ftraws of the holcus. From the centre to the 
" back part of the houfe, a circular apartment is made off, 
with a narrow entrance into it, where the head of the fa- 
" mily takes his nightly reft j the other members of the family 
" lleep in the fore part, or between the large and fmall circles 
*' of the houfe. All the houfes were enclofed by pallifades ; 
" and the fpace between thefe and the dwelling ferves for a 
*' granary and ftore for their grain and pulfe. Thefe granaries 
" were conftruded in the form of oil jars, of baked ciay, the 
" capacity of each being at the leaft two hundred gallons ; and 
** they were fupported on tripods, compofed of the fame ma- 
" terial, which raifed them about nine inches above the ground. 
" They were covered with a round ft raw roof ereded on poles, 
" and fufticiently high to admit an opening into the jars, the 
*' upper edges of which were from five to fix feet from the 
** ground. 
" We walked through the town and obferved that both 
' within it, and on every fide, were plantations of that fpecies 
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