56 HUTS. — THE BUSHMAN DOG. — HUNTING-CAP. 6 March, 
These huts were constructed exactly in the manner already 
described *; and differed only in the greater size of their door-way 
or opening. Not one of these was high enough to admit even a Bush- 
man to stand upright within it ; nor was that of their captain, or chief, 
in any respect different from the others. The inside formed but one 
apartment, where all the family slept ; their bed being nothing more 
than a skin spread upon the ground, and on which they lay them- 
selves down, generally coiled up in their karosses like a bundle of 
clothes ; so that neither head nor legs can be distinguished. But it 
is not every man who has the good-fortune to own a cloak long 
enough for this purpose. The area comprised within the kraal, 
or ring of houses, is more or less extensive in proportion to the 
number of cattle belonging to the community, or to the number of 
dwellings. 
I saw no more than five or six oxen, and as many sheep ; but 
of goats they possessed at least a hundred. Before one of the huts 
I saw eight kids, but did not observe that they were tied by one foot 
to a peg fixed in the ground, till the sight of my umbrella alarmed 
them, and caused the animals to break loose. Their owners, who 
were within the hut, looked up at me with a goodnatured smile, as 
they rose to drive the kids back, and make them fast again. 
The dogs most common among the Bushmen, are a small species 
entirely white, with erect pointed ears : and as this sort was not 
noticed in the Colony, it is probably a breed which may have been 
long in the possession of the native tribes. (See the fourth plate). 
On the head of one man I remarked an unusually large fur cap. 
It was made of spring-buck skin, of a shape extending far behind 
the head, and intended to have as much as possible the appearance 
of that animal's back. This was for the purpose of deceiving the 
game, and of enabling the wearer, as he creeps along between the 
bushes, to approach the animal within reach of his arrow. It is 
called a he-creeping cap (Bekruip-muts) ; and is only worn when in 
pursuit of game. 
* In the first volume, at page 325 ; and represented in the seventh plate. 
