earth-construction

Updated: May 8, 2025

They form a large hollow square, the walls of which are the huts, ranged on all sides of it in a sort of street consisting of two walls, the breadth of an ordinary room, which is partitioned off to a convenient size by interior walls of the same earth-construction as the exterior ones, or as our sepoys' lines are made in India.

John Hanning Speke - What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile