Dr. Leslie's Remarks on the Bushmen, fyc. 79 

 EXAMPLE. 



Some remarks on the Bushmen of the Orange River. 

 By Lewis Leslie, Esq. Assistant Surgeon, 45th Regt. 



[Extracted from the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, for April, 1828.] 



In that neighbourhood,* and along the Hornberg, purer exam- 

 ples of that extraordinary rare are perhaps nowhere to be found ; 

 and whatever follows, regards only them, and may differ from 

 any account of other portions of the tribes along the African 

 frontier. Small in stature as the Hottentot race is, they are, 

 in the quarter mentioned, less than any where else, seldom 

 exceeding five feet, but of the most perfect symmetry ; they 

 are active in their movements, but indolent in disposition ; 

 their colour is dark, but is rendered still darker by filth ; their 

 features are peculiarly forbidding, on account of the great 

 distortion of the bones of the face ; and the facial angle 

 approaches considerably to that of the monkey. The Bush- 

 man will seldom submit to coercion and restraint, — if he does, 

 he becomes the Boor's most wretched menial, and perhaps is 

 worse treated than any slave in the world. In the state of 

 liberty, they dwell in kraals, under the authority of a chief, 

 whose rank is among them hereditary. The number in one 



* The writer refers to a military post, which was situated on a branch of the 

 Orange River, known by the name of Nurgariep, or Black River, and close to 

 the country inhabited by the Tambookies. 



