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long as it can be avoided. I saw Conga sometime ago at the 
Bay, when the matter was discussed, and the Landrost 
received from him a reluctant promise to return to his own 
country. But we learned from subsequent intelligence that 
his progress in that direction was extremely slow, and 
attended by the usual tokens of his displeasure towards such of 
the boors as were obnoxious to himself or any of his followers, 
* The Caffres are generally tall in their persons, erect, 
and extremely well limbed; their countenance open and 
cheerful, and their features pleasing. Their complexion 
nearly jet-black, sets off a regular set of teeth as white 
as ivory. But the constant use of a pigment. made of 
grease and red-ochre, gives their skin a colour nearly 
approaching that of copper; and their mantles, arms, and 
every other article they are in the habit of handling, soon 
acquire a similar hue. 
* The mantle, or kaross, is usually made of calves’ skins 
stitched together, and pared round the skirts into the shape 
ofa blanket, It is worn fixed round the neck, and descends 
as far as the calf of the leg. As it turns with ease round the 
neck, they can oppose it to the wind, whichever way it blows; 
and when they have occasion to throw their Assagays, they 
double it over their left arm, like the robe of the Belvidere 
Apoll. The women gird the mantle round their loins, and 
usually suffer the upper part to hang over: but when they 
€ 9n a journey they tie it round the breast under the arm- 
pits, and in the bag formed between the two ligatures carry 
their youngest child, or their portable furniture. In addition 
to the mantle, they wear a small apron in front, and on the 
a sort of turban made of the skin of the Bushbock, and 
like the watering-caps of our dragoons. Thiet 
fashionable female ornament is a series of short, twisted 
strings of copper, which hangs over the forehead like the 
ion of an epaulette. This singular piece of finery, which 
adorned the brows of only a few distinguished females, though 
it seemed to us misplaced, to say the least of it, appeared to 
add greatly to their importance in the eyes of their own , 
people, ( x : 
