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SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
permanent results from its introduction can 
ever be expected. 
To the second, and yet wilder branch of this 
race, we now, however, turn our attention, and 
scan, at times with awe, the little distance that 
lies between man, in his lowest state, and the 
brute, in his most exalted one, approximated 
and assimulated so closely as the two are, in 
and throughout the various tribes of the " Bos- 
jemen," or, " Bushmen Family," who inhabit 
the deserts and caves of this continent. Of 
their peculiar history we give a detailed ac- 
count in the following chapter. 
HOTTENTOT "WOMAN OF ALGOA BAY. 
