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tots, though the latter, in point of personal appearance, have 
tlie advantage by many degrees. Tlie Bosjesmans, indeed^ 
are amongst the ugliest of all human beings. The flat nose, 
high cheek-bones, prominent chin, and concave visage, par- 
take much of the apeish character, which their keen eye, air- 
ways in motion, tends not to diminish. The upper lid of this 
organ, as in that of the Chinese, is rounded into the lower on the 
side next the nose, and forms not an angle, as is the case in the 
eye of an European, but a circular sweep, so that the point of 
union between the upper and lower eyelid is not ascertainable. 
It is perhaps from this circumstance that they are known in 
the colony under the name of Cineeze, or Chinese Hottentots. 
Their bellies are uncommonly protuberant, and their backs 
hollow ; but their limbs seem to be in general well turned 
and proportioned. Their activity is incredibly great. The 
klip-springing antelope can scarcely excel them in leaping 
from rock to rock ; and they are said to be so swift, that, on 
rough ground, or up the sides of mountains, horsemen have 
no chance in keeping pace with them. And, as the means of 
increasing their speed in the chace^ or when pursued by an 
enemy, the men had adopted a custom, which was sufficiently 
remarkable, of pushing the testicles to the upper part of the 
root of the penis, where they seemed to remain as firmly 
fixed and as conveniently placed as if nature had stationed 
them there. It is highly probable that such an operation, in 
order to be effectual, must be performed at an early period 
of life. Some were said to have one up and one down, 
■which may have given rise to the Hottentots being charac- 
terised in the Syattma Naturce as Monorcfiicks, 
