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outang. Her disposition was gay, her memory 

 good, and she remembered after several weeks, a 

 person whom she had seen but once : she spoke 

 Dutch tolerably well, which she had acquired at 

 the Cape, knew a little English, and began to speak 

 a few words in French ; she danced after the man- 

 ner of her own country; and shewed some ear for 

 music. Personal ornaments pleased her, but that 

 which flattered her taste more than any thing was 

 brandy, drinking which during her last illness, pro- 

 bably hastened its fatal conclusion. 



She was five feet six inches in height, which com- 

 pared with the stature of her countrymen is thought 

 to be tall ; this was probably the consequence of her 

 comparatively better living while at the Cape. 



The enormous size of her haunches, and the pro- 

 jection of her posteriors were very remarkable. 

 Otherwise there was no deformity in the propor- 

 tions of her limbs or body : her shoulders, back and 

 upper part of the breast were not devoid of grace : 

 the convexity of the belly was not excessive : her 

 arms were thin : hand and foot well made ; but her 

 knees appeared large and clumsy, which was after- 

 wards discovered to be caused by an accumulation 

 of fat there. 



The most disgusting part of this woman was her 

 face, which displayed the characters both of the 

 Negro and of the Mongole countenance in its dif- 

 ferent features. 



The posterior protuberance was by no means 

 muscular, but was composed of a mass of an elastic 



