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TRAVELS IN 
The young boys were perfectly naked ; and the only orna- 
ment about them was a small tuft of the long white hair from 
the rump of the springbok, which was stuck upon the crown 
of the head. 
On the second of September we skirted the banks of the 
Kareeka, towards the sca-shorc, perpetually passing through 
multitudes of Kaffers and their herds of cattle. Of the latter 
the collected opinion of the party was, that there could not 
have been fewer seen, in the course of this day's journey, 
than five thousand head. Among these were oxen of remark- 
able size and strength, vast numbers of cows, in general 
much larger and handsomer than those of the colony, some 
of them not unlike the Alderney cow ; others were without 
horns, small and strong, resembling the black cattle that 
come down from the Highlands of Scotland. The horns of 
the large oxen were twisted with great pains into a variety of 
shapes. The points of some were brought to meet under the 
neck ; others were drawn into straight lines projecting hori- 
zontally from each side of the head ; some had one horn 
pointed directly into the air, and the other to the ground ; 
and others, rising parallel from their bases, had their points 
turned back, which gave them the appearance of huge 
antelopes. Some had large circular pieces cut out of the 
dewlap ; others had this part cut into strings, and hanging 
in tassels. Not a sheep nor goat were to be seen. The 
Kaflfers, in fact, never breed any of these animals. Dogs in in- 
numerable quantities made their appearance, but so miserably 
poor that it was painful to look at them. They seemed 
