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into the hole, their snuff box is completed. 
They fasten their picker, spoon, and brush, to- 
gether with a small chain, or thong of leather, 
round the neck of the animal; and then sus- 
pending it, by means of the latter, to their gir- 
dles, and keeping it well supplied with snuff, 
they have frequent recourse to it, and by means 
of the appendages already described, they sup- 
ply, irritate, and finally cleanse their noses at 
their pleasure. 
In addition to their armlets, anklets, and gir- 
dle, they wear ear-rings and necklaces. The 
former of these are usually made (except when 
rings only) of quills, either from birds or porcu- 
pines, with the tail-tuft of the Lepus-Capensis, 
or Cape-hare, or that of the Jerboa, fastened as 
a pendant from the points. Their necklaces are 
varied : those usually worn amongst chiefs are 
made from the teeth of the wolf or tiger ; those 
amongst the commoner people, from shells and 
berries. They wear beads in great abundance, 
strung round their necks, and hanging in long 
bunches on their broad open chests ; they also 
append them to the " nutche" another of their 
pendant ornaments. 
Throughout the lower tribes they wear the 
frontlet, which is a coronet formed of cowrie 
shells, and worn round the head. Amongst 
the Amazulus this is displaced by the coronal 
