OUR FOUR-HANDED RELATIVES. 



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Hottentots in broad daylight and often before the eyes 

 of their fraus and children. After stuffing his cheek- 



THE CHACMA UABOUN. 



pouches, he retreats, but leisurely and slowly, well know- 

 ing that no dog will dare to encounter him in the open 

 fields. His eye-teeth are three inches long, and as sharp 

 as those of a panther, but he rarely makes use of them ; 

 he relies on his arms, on the grasping and wrenching 

 power of his superhuman fists. The orang-outang re- 

 sembles him in this respect, but the orang never fights 

 as long as he can possibly escape ; the chacma yields to 

 nothing but fire-arms, and finishes his meal in the pres- 



