Mi/cell Subj. CV. Pol. VL No. §fi. 



THE BEETS HU ANS. 



.1 he South - African nation of the Gaffers, 

 call'd the Beetskaans, (also Hush wens) 

 whose habitations and manner of living we 

 became already acquainted with (by the 

 number CX. of this vol. ) are on the present 

 table represented still more characteristical- 

 ly according to the colour of their body and 

 their figure. We perceive upon it a young 

 man and a young woman. The man has 

 adorn'd his head with feathers, wears trian- 

 gular pendants, and his nakednefs is cover'd 

 with a long cloak of skins of beasts, and 

 with a little apron; on his arm hangs a 

 sort of little basket or râther little bag, and 

 in his hands he holds Hassagajens or jave- 

 lins, the usual weapons of these warlike 



half savages, who not seldom are engaged in 

 bloody quarrels with their neighbours. 



The young woman, here sitting, with 

 whom the young man holds a conversation, 

 has decently coverM her belly with aprons 

 of leather, forming a sort of little petti- 

 coat. Several women wear too short cloaks. 

 The woman here pictured smokes tobacco, 

 the smoke of which she at her i ease sips out 

 of a hollow pot fill'd with water, in which 

 a wooden tobacco-pipe-tube is with the head 

 above join'd. Near: her lies her felling-ax, 

 the felling of wood being here a principal 

 occupation of women. Besides do we per- 

 ceive some kitchen^furniture, standing upon 

 the earth. 



