174 
SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
said, " "With these we disguise ourselves as os- 
triches, and thus get near the kaop, to shoot it 
with our arrows." 
" A present of tolbacco induced a Boschman 
thus to disguise himself. He placed one of the 
feather frames on his shoulders, and secured it 
about his neck ; then, taking from a bush the 
head and neck of an ostrich, through which a 
stick was thrust, he went out a little way from 
the huts, with a bow and arrow in his left hand, 
and, pretending to approach a kaop, he pecked 
at the tops of the bushes in the manner of 
an ostrich, and occasionally rubbed the head 
against the false body, as the ostrich ever and 
anon does, to get rid of flies. At a little dis- 
tance, and sideways, the general appearance of 
the Boschman was like that of the giant bird, 
though a front view betrayed the whole of the 
human body. 
u Approaching sufficiently near to the Kaop, 
which, of course, has nothing to fear from its 
feathered companions of the plains, the Bosch- 
man slips the ostrich head between his neck 
and the frame, and, cautiously taking aim, dis- 
charges his arrows at the deceived Kaop." 
Living in the wildest manner that it is al- 
most possible to conceive, these tribes are with- 
out government, chiefs, or control of any kind. 
Amongst them, might makes right ! and ne- 
