Ivory Child by H. Rider Haggard

Author:H. Rider Haggard [Haggard, H. Rider]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Action & Adventure
ISBN: 9781425048709
Google: xRY_ngEACAAJ
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
Published: 2007-11-28T07:36:34.304000+00:00

Riding through the eastern gate, a stout timber structure on the

farther side of the corresponding bridge, where the king was received

with salutes by an armed guard, we entered one of the main streets of

the town which ran from north to south and from east to west. It was

broad and on either side of it were the dwellings of the inhabitants

set close together because the space within the stockade was limited.

These were not huts but square buildings of mud with flat roofs of

some kind of cement. Evidently they were built upon the model of

Oriental and North African houses of which some debased tradition

remained with these people. Thus a stairway or ladder ran from the

interior to the roof of each house, whereon its inhabitants were

accustomed, as I discovered afterwards, to sleep during a good part of

the year, also to eat in the cool of the day. Many of them were

gathered there now to watch us pass, men, women, and children, all

except the little ones decently clothed in long garments of various

colours, the women for the most part in white and the men in a kind of

bluish linen.

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