31.   They wash it to eliminate any sand, comb it carefully, then beat it on palm straw mats with clusters of thin staves.

32.   Throughout his discussion with journalists, Pierrette Tansi lay weak and pencil thin on a straw mat inside a bamboo hut in the middle of the clearing.

33.   Two had straw mats to sleep on, the other a towel.

34.   We unrolled our bedding on camel blankets and placed them on straw mats.

35.   When it is cold, they set up a small heater in the bunkers and sleep on straw mats on the floor.

36.   When night fell they built cooking fires and slept on straw mats.

37.   Others spread straw mats on the bare concrete floor of a stifling hot brick building full of mosquitos.

38.   At night, medics let family members stretch out on straw mats on the floor.

39.   He received some sacks of corn and two straw mats from aid agencies before leaving the Ndera transit camp, the last stop on his trip home to Muyunege.

40.   He sprawled on a thin straw mat atop a metal bedframe, his limbs poking stick-like from a faded green workshirt and baggy brown pants.