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SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
They are extravagantly fond of ornaments, 
and cover their arms and necks with rings and 
beads ; all wearing ear-rings as well as anklets. 
In form, they are symmetrically made, al- 
though always tending to obesity ; and the pan- 
city of clothing employed by them, causes the 
breasts, in middle life, to become elongated to 
an extraordinary extent, reaching quite to the 
hips ; the effect of witnessing this is, at first, 
rather unpleasing to Europeans ; but, like many 
other things of a similar character, their eyes 
soon become as accustomed to it as those of 
the Kaffirs themselves. 
In nursing their little ones, this extraordi- 
nary elongation of the breasts, is, however, 
brought into account; for as the " picinini" or 
infant is always carried on its mother's back, 
finding a seat at the extremity of the spine, 
of a less fictitious and more substantial cha- 
racter than would be the case with European 
mothers ; so when the cravings of hunger ren- 
der it troublesome to her, the mother immedi- 
ately passes her personal " milk-sac v under her 
arm, and, giving it a gentle pressure between 
her side and elbow, thus alleviates the suffer- 
ings, supplies the wants, and calms the cries of 
her child. Or when the "picinini" becomes 
old enough to sit up erect, then, instead of 
passing it under her arm, the mother throws 
