"When they reached the top of this ascent, they found a small clay-built hut, thatched with furze, erected close under the shelter of an immense rock, which hung with frowning grandeur over it, and seemed to threaten to crush it and its inhabitants to pieces."
"Then we passed the poor clay-built village of _Deaneh_, where the people were winnowing a large harvest of millet, and the Government tax-farmers with their soldiers, lent by the authorities, measuring the heaps."
"It was little better than a shed, but was sheltered by an ash tree, and a clay-built shed alongside served for a rude stable."