Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . uthern Africa, where the wholeof active life is spent, as a rule, in the open air, and where houses are onlyused as sleeping-boxes. The doorway that gives admission into the cir-cular chamber is always small. In a house that was assigned to Dr. Livingstone, it was only nineteeninches in total height, twenty-two in width at the floor, and twelve at the A CELEBRATED AFRICAN TRIBE. top. A nati
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . uthern Africa, where the wholeof active life is spent, as a rule, in the open air, and where houses are onlyused as sleeping-boxes. The doorway that gives admission into the cir-cular chamber is always small. In a house that was assigned to Dr. Livingstone, it was only nineteeninches in total height, twenty-two in width at the floor, and twelve at the A CELEBRATED AFRICAN TRIBE. top. A native Makololo, with no particular encumbrance in the way ofclothes, makes his way through the doorway easily enough ; but anAmerican with all the impediments of dress about him finds himself sadlyhampered in attempting to gain the penetration of a Makololo through this door, the tower has neither light nor of the best houses have two, and even three, of these towers, builtconcentrically within each other, and each having its entrance about aslarge as the door of an ordinary dog-kennel. Of course the atmosphereis very close at night, but the people care nothing about HOUSE-BUILDING IN AFRICA. Our illustration is from a sketch furnished by Mr. Baines. It repre-sents a nearly completed Makololo house on the banks of the Zambesiriver, just above the great Victoria Falls. The women have placed theroof on the building, and are engaged in the final process of fixing thethatch. In the centre is seen the cylindrical tower which forms the inner-chamber, together with a portion of the absurdly small door by which itis entered. Round it is the inner wall, which is also furnished with its 90 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. doorway. These are made of stakes and withes, upon which is workeda quantity of clay, well patted on by hand, so as to form a thick andstrong wall. Even the wall which surrounds the building and the wholeof the floor are made of the same materia
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