They are generally of wicker work, plastered within with mud.

A large mud chimney and a door are the only openings.

And yet the Bulgarians, in these miserable cottages, are the cleanliest people in the world.

Excepting the rice cultivators, who dress expressly for their muddy work, we saw not a ragged Bulgarian between Adrianople and Philippopolis.

Their clothes are of home manufacture, coarse, strong, whole, and clean.