. The Victoria Nyanza; the land, the races and their customs, with specimens of some of the dialects . ultan kept watch with spear or musket, and thenthrough several passages, also surrounded by a highfence, I arrived at a small round space, the back ofwhich was occupied by the large reception-hut of thechieftain. Here the bodyguard of the Sultan formedline; I passed along the front, and at the end of itLutaikwa received me in front of the hut. Right and left from this space narrow roads led out tothe dwelling-rooms of the Sultan. In another village of Lutaikwas, four huts wereerected in a sim
. The Victoria Nyanza; the land, the races and their customs, with specimens of some of the dialects . ultan kept watch with spear or musket, and thenthrough several passages, also surrounded by a highfence, I arrived at a small round space, the back ofwhich was occupied by the large reception-hut of thechieftain. Here the bodyguard of the Sultan formedline; I passed along the front, and at the end of itLutaikwa received me in front of the hut. Right and left from this space narrow roads led out tothe dwelling-rooms of the Sultan. In another village of Lutaikwas, four huts wereerected in a similar wide road, which served as reception-houses and exhibited no special decoration inside. Inanother village, too, I found all the roads, passages andhuts uniformly strewn with fine hay, on which everyfootstep or other sound was deadened, while in othersettlements this was only done in the interior of thedwelling-rooms. In Kyamtwara I visited another Sultans residence,which also lay in a large grove of bananas mingled withlofty forest trees. I annex a sketch of this (Fig. S3). 70 VICTORIA NYANZA. (£>-■ a> (D—\ © - i , dwelling-huts ; c, open space ; d, privy ; e, reception huts ; / attendantshuts ; g-, daua-stand and cows-horns ; h, banana groves , i, space in front of the village ; k,station of body-guard ; /, isolated trees. KISIBA 71 great road stood three smallish huts ; in the middle werea few ordinary low trees, and at the entrance to theroad from the country outside was raised up a high dauastand. This daua stand was composed of four or fivestakes bent into th
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