Soldier's Bath

This is just a post about everyday life in South Africa. In this home (pictured), in the very early morning, a young girl delivered a basin of shallow, steaming hot water to my room -- heated on a wood stove. It is sometimes called "a soldier's bath". While I say "room", this was not an enclosed space. One then washes with a lather, and discards the water outside on the grass. The gas lamp on the left is reserved for special Church events. OBSERVATION: As for the privy, it depends whether there is one. In this home, there wasn't one -- neither inside nor outside.