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BIMANA. 



universally and equally spread over the scalp, but grows in small frizzled 

 knots, or tufts, at a certain distance from each other, and, when suffered to 

 grow, hangs in hard twisted tassels, the hairs forming each being so 

 felted together as to defy the aid of the cornjb to separate them. The 

 colour of the skin is tawny buff, or sickly yellowish brown. Sparrrnan 

 compared it to that of a person affected with jaundice. The Hottentot 

 physiognomy is represented in fig. 217. 



217 



Hottentot female. 



The Bushmen, or Saabs, now generally recognised as a division of 

 the Hottentot race, exhibit all those characters which arise from extreme 

 wretchedness, and insufficient or innutritious diet, combined with a life of 

 incessant apprehension, being persecuted alike by the Coranas, the Caffres, 

 and the Boors ; they are diminutive in person, and generally ill-favoured 

 in countenance, though not universally so ; instances occurring, especially 

 among the females, of pleasing features* " A wild, shy, suspicious eye, 

 and a crafty expression," says Lichtenstein, " form (in the Bushman) a 

 striking contrast to the frank, open physiognomy of the Hottentot. The 

 universally distinguishing features of the Hottentot, the broad flat nose, 

 and large prominent cheek bones, are, from the leanness of the Bushmen, 



