HUNS AND HOTTENTOTS 101 



resembled that of a young monkey. Danster's 

 physiognomy indicated a mixture of various 

 strains ; the result was quite insignificant. 



The Mongolian features of Hendrick were 

 distinctive and very interesting. What was it 

 that his appearance suggested ; not exactly the 

 Chinaman, for his expression was not at all 

 impassive; one could always read his mood by 

 it. His eyes were slightly oblique, his cheek- 

 bones high, his head was as round as a Kanya 

 stone. With remarkable muscular develop- 

 ment of the chest and shoulders, heavily 

 hipped and very slightly bandy-legged, for 

 long I was puzzled to discover what is was 

 that Hendrick reminded me of. He loved a 

 horse and rode like a Centaur or the man- 

 part thereof. Then I knew : it was a Hun that 

 I was seeking for, one of the locusts of that 

 Asiatic horde which swept over Europe from 

 the north-eastern steppes. I think that Attila, 

 the Eraser of Nations, who swayed the world 

 from his saddle-throne, must have looked 

 somewhat like my scout. The most plausible 

 theory as ?o the origin of the Hottentot race is 

 that its progenitors migrated hither from Asia. 

 Even van Riebeek noticed the resemblance 

 between the aborigines of the Cape and the 

 Chinese. Yes, I was almost certain that Hen- 



