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THE KILIM A-XJA B 0 EXPEDITION. 
built storehouse, raised on piles (as may be seen 
in the illustration), and the other two beehive 
huts, surmounted with peaks like hay-cocks; goats 
and fat-tailed sheep are feeding on the pea-shucks 
which a woman, who is shelling peas, casts from 
time to time on the ground; and fowls are busy 
picking in the several rubbish-heaps, or kitchen- 
middens, which stand outside the doorway. Little 
Fig. 42.—Caga Storehouse and Dwelling. 
surprise is manifested at my entrance. Another 
woman comes out from the smaller house, and stares 
for a short time at the unexpected arrival, but the 
woman shelling peas scarcely looks up from her work. 
Invited by my Gaga friend to make myself at home I 
sit on the only available seat, a rough-hewn log cast 
on the ground, and commence a sketch of the scene 
before me. The storehouse is rapidly drawn in, the 
