21.   So they stayed, sleeping on straw mats on the sidewalk by the factory gate, waiting for some stroke of good fortune they know will never come.

22.   The bare floor held only straw sleeping mats and a small, ancient television.

23.   The family, along with the goat, huddled on a single vermin-infested straw mat.

24.   The men gathered outside on straw mats laid out on the earth and listened to the Imam from the local mosque offer prayers.

25.   The traditional symbols of Kwanzaa are set up on a table that is first covered with a straw mat symbolizing the foundations of African culture.

26.   Then there are the garages, straw mats laid out under the shade of trees by the roadside, where the mechanics work amid a sprawl of simple tools.

27.   They are sleeping on straw mats on the floor, removing their shoes to enter the inn and bathing in the famous communal baths.

28.   They carried the straw mats to their homes and boxed up the books that Omar regarded as too important to be handled by the local boys.

29.   They lay on straw mats on the floor, their bandages caked with blood and their intravenous bottles hanging beside them.

30.   They sleep on straw mats on the ground, and his wife, Helene Mukabutera, cooks sweet potatoes and rice over an open fire.