Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-06-17
Living IN CAVES
italians Have Been Forced Back TO
Primitive Recourse.
They Dig HOLES In The HILLSIDES
Review of the Development Of Human
Habitation Back to Early TiE1ss,
Along With a Census of Different
People Who Sill Make Their tIctnes

People Who Skill Make Their tIcnes
by Digging.
Cave houses arc coming In style
again. Scarcity Of housing accomniu-
dations In the district along Lake
Maggurc and Como italy. has driven
many peasants to dig houses for,
themselves in the hlilsldes where they
live in primitive simplicity, newspap-
er dispatches SHY. ~.
"Thc inhabitants Of most Of the
countries Of the world have at some
tstage in their development lived IN
cave dwellings. 4 belt Of such dwell
ings extends from Chiha across India
to Asia Minor and Arahln, thence
along the shores of the Mediterra mean
to the Canary Islands, the West In
dies, Mexico, and North and South
America. In few places today man
kind still lives in this simple and in
expensive fashion," says bulletin
from the Washington. D. c. headquar-
ters of the National Geographic So
ciety.
/ "Have a Cave" Welcome to Traveller
"On Eastern Island, in thc Pacific
where innumerablc caves and grot-
toes have been formed by The wash
ing away OF soft dcpoyits which lie
beneath the hard t9lcanlc strata,
housing accommodations present no
problem. Many Of the natives sleep
in the open or in these caves and
chccrfully point them out to the.
traveller as the logical shelter for him
during the night.
I'm one OF the widest portions Of.
northern Africa, near Gucrmessa, on
the top of sugar-loaf mountain
whose sides rise precipitously for hun
drcds Of feet fierce and warlikc race
now live for three months in the year
in stone caves followed out in the
mountain sides. The trail to the
dwellings has been worn as smooth
|'as glass by centuries Of constant usc
which makes an approach difficult for
man and beast. These mountain men
have cut separate establishments for
themselves, their wives and their
children, and have furnished them with
rugs from Kairowan and Persia and
numerous leather cushions stuffed with
sleeps wool.
TrogIodyte "Trusties" Guard Homes
."Suspicious of other cave dwelling
people near them and hating the
stranger they spend the remaining
nine months in the year wandering
with their flocks "f long goats
( Broad tailed sheep and camels on the
borders of the Sahara. Down in the
valleys too there arc plantations OF
superb olive and fig trees which they
protect from the other troglodytes dur
Ing this season, while their houses in
the mountains are being guarded by
n few trusty men.
"At Matmata and. Mcdninc in Tun-
Iisia are extraordinary underground
pit dwellings, When he is told that he
is approaching one Of these villages
the traveller experiences Il queer sem
sation at seeing nothing on tho land
scape except cratcrlikc holes in the
earth which look like they might have
been caused by the explosion Of cnor-
nous shells. AS he peeps over the
rim of these holes in the Garth nc *cc;i
below him the intimate life of the
family, their dogs and camcls. This
is their common living roam. which
ms entered from above by S!antlng
subterranean channel Other rooms
I.enter into it by means Of lateral pas
sage ways, and arc sometimes eXca-
waited one above thr ether for two or
three stories. It is said that as many