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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 

 of a 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 

 Apollo. The women gird the mantle round their loins, and 

 usually suffer the upper part to hang over : but when they 

 are on 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 

 head a sort of turban made of the skin of the Bushbock, and 

 shaped like the watering-caps of our dragoons. The most 

 fashionable female ornament is a series of short, twisted 

 strings of copper, which hangs over the forehead like the 

 bullion 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. 



