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shoulder. To this the women add a belt, or strap 
of hide, fastened round the loins, with shells, or 
a piece of leather cut into narrow strips so as 
to resemble a fringe, attached to it. This, 
hanging in front of the body, forms the only 
cover to their person ; and from their savage, 
untutored state, even this appears to be viewed 
by them more as an ornament to the figure, 
than as an article of clothing. 
The Korunna-Bushmen, who have latterly 
fallen in more constantly with European tra- 
ders in the interior, and have become more 
docile and less wary, have obtained from them 
beads, shells, and bits of copper wire, which 
they wear round the ancles and arms, like the 
other native tribes. They sometimes also at- 
tach them to the little pellets of wool that grow 
scantily dispersed o ver their heads. This wool 
(for it is not worthy of the name of hair) they 
rub into little round knots with a mixture of 
grease, filth, and red ochre, which does not 
tend much to add either beauty to their ap- 
pearance or sweetness to their odour. 
Their weapons are bows and quivers full of 
poisoned arrows ; the bow is usually two feet 
six inches in length, and is formed of some kind 
of hard pliable wood, found and selected in the 
interior forests. They string them with a thong 
of twisted hide well saturated with grease. The 
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