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The Basutos : or, twenty-three years in South Africa (1861)

Casalis, Eugène Arnaud, b. 1812 · London, J. Nisbet · leaf 170

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n case it becomes absolutely necessary to seek shelter from the inclemency of the weather or the public gaze. It is used as a sleeping-place when it is cold or wet. There man enters the world, and there he dies; — there he receives those attentions that sickness requires, and there are stored up… … TRANSVKBSAL SECTION OF A BaROLONG HUT. In the country of the Batlapis, the Barolongs, and the Baharutsis, where the heat is excessive and wood abundant, the hut is high and well ventilated; it is in the form of a conical dome, round which is a little verandah which serves to support the roof, at…

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