The dwelling of a Booshuana is not ill calculated for the
climate. In elegance and solidity it may probably be quite
as good as the Cases or first houses that were built in imperial
Rome, and may be. considered in every respect superior in its
construction and in comfort to most of the Irish cabins, into
which the miserable peasantry are. oftimes obliged to crawl
through puddles of water. The hut of a Booshuana is not
only raised upon an elevated clay flooring, but the ground of
the whole enclosure is so prepared that the water may run off
through the gateway; and the whole of their cookery being
carried on in this open area, the inside of the dwelling is. free
from smoke and soot. So Well is he acquainted with the
comfort and convenience of shade, that his hut is usually
built under the branches of a-spreading mimosa, every twig of
which is preserved with a religious care, and not a bough suffered
to be broken off on any emergency, though the article of
fuel must sometimes be sought at a very considerable distance.
So large a population collected together on one spot, surrounded
by barren deserts occasionally inhabited by a few
savages, and cut off from all communication .with other
civilized societies, necessarily implies j the adequate means
of subsistence within themselves. One great source from
which they draw their support is their cattle, whose flesh,
however, they eat but very u sparingly; milk is mostly
used in a curdled, state, which they keep not in.grass
baskets, like the Eastern Kaffers, but in leathern bags
and clay pots. Every part of the country abounds with
almost all the various kinds of antelopes that are found in
Southern Africa, with the rhinosceros, the buffalo, and the
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