286 TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
to the erown of Fur, but are a diftind tribe, which formerl)? 
ruled the country. Kordofan, which is now fubjed to Fur, 
and a number of other fmaller kingdoms, as Dar Berti, &c. 
Ddr Rugna has a king, who is however dependent, but more 
on Bergoo than on Fur. What are the numbers of each is very- 
difficult to fay, as there are few or no data w^hence any thing 
fatisfadiory can be deduced. 
-;k! J>: \ .3 z;-^: Building. ; • ' ' 
This art, in which more refined nations difplay fo much 
ingenuity, and confume fo much of their property, is here 
limited by the neceffity that produced it. A light roof .fhelters 
the Furian from the fun and rain, and he fears not to be crufhed 
by the mafs which he has ralfed for his fecurity. The con- 
flagration may defolate his abode, but his foul is not appalled, 
for he has raifed no monument of vanity to become its prey, 
The walls, wherever that material is to be procured, are built 
of, clay ; and the people of higher rank cover them with a kind 
of plafter, and colour them white, red, and black. The apart- 
ments are of three kinds, one is called a Donga^ which is a 
cube commonly formed in the proportion of twenty feet by 
twelve. The four walls are covered with a flat roof confifl:ing 
of light beams laid horizontally from fide to fide ; over this is 
fpread a fliratum of ufliar, or fome other light wood, or, by 
thofe who can afford the expenfe, courfe mats ; a quantity of 
dried horfe's or camel's dung is laid over this ; and the whole is 
finiflied with a ftrong and fmooth coating of clay. They con- 
trive 
