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huts were cleanly swept and tidy, and their stores of 
grain were raised upon rough pillars of granite, smaller, 
but resembling those circular erections in our own 
country known as Druids' temples. These grain stores 
consisted of an enormous cylinder made of mud and 
wattle placed on the top of the stones, and covered 
with a roof or lid of grass and bamboo, which could 
be raised sufficiently with a pole to admit of a man 
entering them. A rough ladder or stick with forks 
enables the women to get to the top for the purpose 
of taking out grain. 
The women, married and single, old and young, 
wear only a bit of fringe suspended from the waist in 
front, and a pendant of chickweed, or a bunch of long 
leather thongs like shoe-ties, behind. They have no 
other clothing. Enormous heavy rings of iron some- 
times ornament their ankles, and a few beads their 
necks ; and they are not nearly so smart in appearance 
as the men, who may be seen sitting upon the rocks 
in the shade of trees dressing each other's hair with 
shells, beads, feathers, or turned -up queues covered 
with fine wire. Their whole employment would seem 
to be ornamenting their persons ; and they are gene- 
rally seen standing in conceited and ridiculous atti- 
tudes. The women carry their children on their backs, 
tied by straps, and the mother has thus the free use 
of her hands. The infant is shaded from the sun by 
a gourd placed over its head and shoulders. This 
custom is said to be common also with the Watuta 
race. Here also the people sleep upon the skin of a 
cow or goat placed on the clean-swept floor of mud, 
and have no covering. The doors of the huts are so 
low that ordinary people would have to go upon their 
