KORIOTSTA BUSHMEN. 
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to their grades. The Korunna-Bushmen who 
dwell on, and around, the Karoo country, South 
of the Vaal and Caledon rivers, usually live 
under mats, which they roll up in the daytime, 
and are carried, by the women, from place to 
place. At night they tear off two branches or 
sticks from the bushes, and, bending them into 
a semi-circular shape, they suspend this mat 
from them, above some natural cavity in the 
ground. Into this hole they creep, and, coiling 
themselves up like animals, they lie down to 
sleep during the darkness of the night. These 
mats are usually made by the women; long 
rushes or grass being platted together, and 
anointed, like all the rest of their gear, with 
thick coatings of clay and grease. These ha- 
bitations are, however, only indulged in by 
the Korunna-Bushmen of the lower districts ; 
and are luxuries of civilization wholly unknown 
to the ISfamaqua Bushmen, or those of the 
South Zahara desert. 
Amongst these latter, a cave, or a deep fissure 
in a rocky precipice, is sufficient shelter from 
the atmosphere ; and these they endeavour to 
render as warm as possible, by lining them with 
leaves, grass, and skins, the cold of night being 
all that the Bushman dreads, in the climate of 
his native wilds. 
" It is impossible/' says a traveller, speaking 
