The refugees were evacuated to a safe distance from their huts or hovels. Many families lived with the pigs in their hovels, which soon became slums. During the Industrial Revolution factories, mills and terraced hovels grew up along the river banks. Hovels known as "coolie lines" dotted the landscape. There are ruins of ancient hovels and a fort in Al-Buraimi. What was described as a suburb of mud hovels ran southwards out from the village. Many lived in hovels and people begging for money and food were commonplace. It was composed of roughly 400 one-room hovels laid out in a haphazard fashion. Six miles from Hommlet, a group of hovels formed a center for the evil activity.