The height varies.

In most huts, the ceiling is so low that to rise suddenly is dangerous both to one's head and to the structure, while in others the roof is six or seven feet from the floor.

Windows, of course, there are none.

Sometimes a hole is left in the middle of the roof to let the smoke out; but this is a refinement undreamed of by many.
[Illustration: Fig.

1 .-- Brickmaking, from Eighteenth Dynasty tomb-painting, Tomb of Rekhmara.] At the first glance, it is not always easy to distinguish between these huts of wattle and daub and those built with crude bricks.