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Title: 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. By Rev. J. G. Wood... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, John George, 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages
Publisher: J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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ould not be inducedto believein its size. They defended theirposition ))y argument, net merely content-ing tliem.selves with assertions. Ihcir chiefargument was derived trcm the imjiossibil-ity of such a building sustaining its ownweight. The only building materials ofwhich they had any experience were theposts and sticks of which their own housesAvere made, and the reeds wherewith theywere thatched. Sometimes a very luxuri-ous house-owner would pdaster the interiorwith mud, producing that peculiar styleof architecture which is popularly called wattle-and-daub. They could not com-prehend in the least that stone could be usedin building dwelling-houses; and the wholesystem of cutting stone into rectangularpieces, and the use of bricks, was equallybeyond their comprehension. Mortar alsow^as an inexplicable mj^stery, so that onthe whole they decided on discrediting thetales told them by the white man. A Kaffir house (see page 155) locks justlike an exaggerated beehive. It is of pre- (56)
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KAFFIRS AT HOME.(See page 70.) (nr) KAFFIR HUTS. 59 cisely the same shape, is made of nearly thesame materials, aiHl has a little arched door,just like tiie entrance of a beehive, throughwhich a man can barely creep on his handsand knees. The structure of these huts isvery simi)ie. A circle is drawn of some four-teen feet in diameter, and around it are stucka number of long, llexible sticks. Thesesticks are then bent over at the top and tiedtogether, so as to form a framework very likea comm )n wire mousetrap. A reed thatch-ing Is then laid over the sticks, and securedin its place by parallel lashings. Theselashings are made of monkey-ropes, orthe creepers that extend their interminablelength from tree to tree, and arc found ofevery size, from a cable to a packthread.They twist themselves into so rope-like ashape, that many persons have refused tobelieve that they have not been artiliciallymade. The rows of lashing are about eigh-teen inches apart. In shape, the hut is ex-actly like t

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