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of Edinlurgli, Session 1883-84. 
Trenches are dug round the huts before the rains set in at a 
sufficient distance for the water dripping off the roof to fall into 
them. A small channel from the trench carries off this water to a 
convenient distance. 
Furniture . — These dwellings do not contain many articles of 
furniture. The principal one is the bed, which is made from the stem 
of a plant called yougo, resembling the sugar cane. Narrow pieces 
of the stem are cut about 6 feet long, laid side by side, fastened 
together by strips of cow hide, and then fixed on to three wooden 
cross bars. This is raised from the ground about 3 feet upon six thick 
round wooden legs, to which the cross bars are tied, the whole is 
then covered with a cow hide. 
A large earthenware jar is an indispensable piece of furniture. It 
is about 4 feet deep and 5 feet wide, with a narrow neck, and is 
placed on a wooden stand, generally formed of the forked branch of 
a tree. It contains a good supply of semsem seed (Egnoir), which 
is used for making porridge, and from which oil is obtained. 
Another jar of the same shape, but smaller, contains water, and is 
placed near the entrance. 
The bare ground, which is well trodden and beaten to make it firm, 
forms the floor, and a wood fire is generally burning in the centre 
of it. Jars of varying shapes and sizes are placed round the hut on 
the floor, or hnng from the walls in string nets. They contain 
different kinds of dhurra, also honey, butter, dried sugar cane, 
salt, &c. Baskets made of dhurra stalks are also hung round the 
hut, more for ornament than use it would seem. Bundles of arrows, 
spears, bows, and knives serve the same purpose when not in use. 
Besides the principal hut, each family usually has a hut for 
strangers ; and as soon as children arrive at the age of four or five 
years, the father builds a separate hut for the girls and one for the 
boys, or several neighbours club together in these huts. These 
additional buildings contain only beds, a water jar, and a few 
basket work ornaments. 
Granaries . — Another erection is constructed as a storehouse for 
dhurra. The circular wall is made like that of the other huts, of 
poles and grass, but it has a flat wooden roof upon which is fixed 
an upper chamber of basket work (literally a huge basket), in which 
the dhurra is kept. Over it is placed a roof similar to the one de- 
