140 SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
proper."* In appearance and stature they are 
most singular, approaching, in every particular, 
to a caricature on the contour of the Egyptian 
copts. They average in height about four feet 
five or six inches, and are small boned, and 
and very sinewy. Their hands and feet are long 
and thin, and their nails almost resemble claws. 
Their arms are long in proportion, reaching 
far down their side; the chest and shoulders 
are narrow and contracted ; the head long and 
compressed, and sloping from the top of the 
cheek-bone (which projects far out and close 
under the eye) towards the chin, which is also 
protruding and pointed, thus giving the face 
the form of an inverted isosceles triangle, of 
which the chin forms the salient angle. The 
forehead recedes from the eyebrow to the top 
of the cranium, at a considerable inclination, 
this latter being thinly studded over with small 
tufts of black wool, about the size of peas. Their 
eyes are dark, small, and stealthy, and wander 
frequently. The ear is very long and large, 
and stands out from the side of the head ; the 
cheeks are sunken and wrinkled ; the nose quite 
* The " Hottentots proper" are, however, a distinct tribe from the 
Korunnas, although the former are now but limited in numbers. It 
has been supposed that the Korunna tribes were an integral part of 
the common nation who remained behind in the interior districts, 
while the others pushed on toward the South; from which they 
again, however, receded on the arrival of the Dutch. 
