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paid a visit to his huts^ eight in number : they were fenced oflF 
with the cane-work before described. These were furnished with 
a private exit^ and a passage four feet wide communicated with 
the settlement. Three huts were destined for culinary purposes 
and the grinding of corn; which here^ as in the Soudan^ is per- 
formed on a large slab of granite^ the operator crushing the grain 
by friction with a stone of the same material. Thus the husks 
ADZE, AXE, HOE, AND NECKLACE. 
are ground with the grain and consumed with the flour; whereas 
the pestle and mortar used by the Dinkas separate them, and by 
means of a flat triangular vessel of plaited straw, slightly curved 
at the sides, the winnowing is cleverly effected by shaking up the 
flour by a succession of peculiar jerks or twitches. The pottery 
is excellent, and in construction and material not devoid of taste 
or ornament ; it is confined, however, entirely to water and cook- 
ing vessels of different shapes and sizes. The only articles of fur- 
niture consist of small stools carved out of a single piece of wood, 
and a > kind of stage, the legs driven in the ground and covered 
with sticks, support a litter of leaves or straw, which forms the bed. 
