. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world : being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics . e method of arranging them is verycurious. At intervals of three hundredyards or so are built little huts of grass,each being the lodging-place of two slightly built, there is some attemptat ornament about them, as each hut hasa pent roof, a veranda supported by lightpoles, and the side walls decorated with adiamond pattern of bamboo and a fetishshrub, which is sujiposed to repel l
. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world : being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics . e method of arranging them is verycurious. At intervals of three hundredyards or so are built little huts of grass,each being the lodging-place of two slightly built, there is some attemptat ornament about them, as each hut hasa pent roof, a veranda supported by lightpoles, and the side walls decorated with adiamond pattern of bamboo and a fetishshrub, which is sujiposed to repel tuft of grass ornaments each end of thegables, and those huts that are situatednearest the palace are always the most dec-orated. In front of each hut the muskets belong-ing to the soldiers are fixed horizcnitally onforked sticks. They are ready loaded, andthe two are employed lest one of themshould miss fire. There are nearly ninehundred of these huts upon the line to Why-dah, and it is calculated that the time occu-pied in the fire ought to be about half anhour. When Captain Burton attended this cere-mony in , Gelele had not been con-firmed at Allada, and in conseciueuce was. THE BASKET SACRIFICE. (See page 582.) (583; A EOYAL PALACE. 585 not, by royal etiquette, allowed to live in ahouse built of anjthing better than stakesand matting. Consequently, his officerswere obliged to follow his example, as itwould have been equivalent to treason hada subject presumed to live in a swishhouse when his monarch only dwelt inmatting. However, on this occasion at all eventsthe king tried to atone by barliarous fineryfor the wretched material of his Agwajai gate led into an ol^long courtof matting, sprinkled with thick-leaved lit-tle fig trees of vivid green, and divided intotwo by the usual line of baml)oos. At thebottom of the southern half was the royalpavilion, somewhat like a Shakmiyaua inBengal, with an open wing on each side. ? The sloping roof of the cen
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