with their pointed roofs, and the barn-like edifices of the chiefs, to the rickety shantees of the kai-sis, and the diminutive yam- houses, perched on four posts, to protect the yams from the depredations of the rats. It is every where intersected by narrow lanes, closely shut in with high reed… … artificial one, ten feet high. The mbure is about twelve feet square, — and its sides or walls only four feet high; while its high-pitched roof rises to the height of about thirty feet. The walls and roof of the
United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)
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