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HOTTENTOTS IN FULL DRESS. 
18 March, 
also to take his likeness, he instantly came and seated himself down in 
the same place, and in the same attitude. I mention this little cir- 
cumstance, because it shows marks of a tractable disposition, and of 
a goodnatured readiness to do what he supposed to be proper; 
imagining that sitting in that position, was the only mode in which a 
portrait could be taken. His features, assisted by the roundness of 
youth, had a very pleasing expression ; and when the drawings were 
shown to him, he smiled as if conscious of their being resemblances 
of himself and his countryman. My own men were much amused at 
the representation I had given of the boy's leanness and Riizo's flat 
nose ; Speelman exclaiming, net zo mager ; net zo lelyk (just as lean j 
just as ugly). 
1 now discovered in part, what were the contents of my Hotten- 
tots' bags. Being on the point of making our appearance before 
Kriste-mensch (Christians) as they thought, each one had dragged 
into light some new piece of dress, which had been reserved for this 
grand occasion. Old Cobus displayed a new pair of leathern trowsers, 
and Uncle Hans did the same ; Hendrik produced a new leathern 
jacket quite red with the dye given in tanning ; and Philip^ being the 
washerwoman, did not forget to put on a clean shirt, and dress him- 
self out in his blue cloth trowsers and jas (watch-coat). 
But Speelman, whom I had long marked as the dandy of our 
party, with this exception to the character, that he was a man and 
had brains, outshone them all. He dressed in a fashion, I believe, of 
his own ; or at least, I never saw its like in any part of Africa. 
Besides the cocked hat which I have already commemorated, he wore 
a blue cloth jacket, and new leathern trowsers. Over these were 
drawn blue cotton stockings, which came up above the knees ; over 
the lower half of the stockings, he had buttoned on a pair of leathern 
gaiters ; and to complete the neatness of his leg and foot, he added 
to the gaiters a new pair of hide-shoes. 
Thus equipped, we set out early in the forenoon, anticipating 
the comfort of taking up our next quarters under shelter of a Dutch 
farm-house. The day was fair, and the weather now appeared to be 
more settled. The scenery was exceedingly picturesque ; the sand- 
