CHAPTER VII. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE DISTRICTS, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF 
THE BUSHMEN FAMILY. 
Tea yelling far into the barren interior, over 
the thirsty plains of the African desert, and 
leaving behind by hundreds of miles, the hannts 
of civilization, and even those of the less bar- 
barons nations also ; now the straying Bush- 
men, scattered over the wild and dismal scene, 
are here and there descried, wandering from glen 
to glen, or bounding like the ape from one rock 
to the other. As a species of the human genus 
it is revolting in the extreme, and indeed de- 
grading, to have to depict or describe them. 
Hunger and cold, and every description of pri- 
vation and distress, seem to have cramped the 
growth of life within, and to have left them a 
caricature on our humanity too painful to con- 
template ; resembling, in fact, animated skele- 
tons, or mummies raised from their tombs. In 
appearance, they are as ugly as anything, in 
human shape and feature, can be conceived. 
Their stature is dwindled down to the dimi- 
nutive average of, for men, about four feet 
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