The annexed print will convey a tolerably good idea of
a Booshuanas establishment, and the ground-plan of the
* cabin will be-understood from the following sketch.
The whole is covered with a tent-shaped roof, supported
on poles built into the wall, and forming in front an open
colonnade. The roof is carefully and compactly thatched with
reeds, or the straw of the holcus, and bound together with
leathern thongs. All the houses were enclosed by a fence
made of strong reeds, of the straw of holcus, or twigs of wood ;
and within this enclosure, contiguous to the dwelling-house,
there stood a large clay vessel erected upon a raised floor of
the same material, which served as a store for containing"
their grain and pulse. These granaries had the appearance
of large oil jar’s, the capacity of some of them being not less
than 200 gallons. They are raised from the ground on
three legs, are from six to nine feet high and, like the
dwelling-houses, are covered with a pointed roof of thatch.
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