As the talk went on there were more and more words that the girl could not understand, and the children soon gave up the attempt to explain to her what their own country was like, when they began to see how very few of the things they had always thought they could not do without were really not at all necessary to life.
The girl showed them how the huts were made--indeed, as one was being made that very day she took them to look at it.

The way of building was very different from ours.

The men stuck long pieces of wood into a piece of ground the size of the hut they wanted to make.

These were about eight inches apart; then they put in another row about eight inches away from the first, and then a third row still further out.

Then all the space between was filled up with small branches and twigs, and then daubed over with black mud worked with the feet till it was soft and sticky like putty.
The girl told them how the men went hunting with flint spears and arrows, and how they made boats with reeds and clay.