SOUTHERN AFRICA. 1237 
jes Hoogte know as little of the Bosjesmans as these do of 
the English, the conminnication being pretty mucli the 
same. This Frenchman says it was from a Hottentot woman 
he made his drawing. If the print given in his book has 
been copied from that drawing, it must have been a study 
rather from his own imagination than from nature, for it 
bears not the most distant resemblance to the truth. 
The protruded nymphte are common to all Hottentot vv^o- 
men, but they are shorter in those who live among the colo- 
nists, seldom exceeding three inches, and in many subjects 
appearing only as a projecting orifice or elliptical tube of an 
inch, or less, in length. In the bastaard they cease to appear ; 
which is a proof that a connection with different nations 
counteracts the predisposition to such a conformation. 
It would seem, however, that it is not to the southern angle 
of Africa alone where the same predisposition for the elonga- 
tion of the nymphae is manifested. The physical causes tiiat 
tend to the production of so extraordinary an effect appear 
to have operated in those parts of Egypt which are situated 
under the same and opposite parallels of latitude as the Hot- 
tentot country. It seems, however, to have been considered here 
as a disease, whose appearance was so deformed and disgust- 
ing, that those who were troubled with it were glad to undergo 
the violent pain of the actual cautery in order to get rid of it. 
The great curvature of the spine inwards, and the remark- 
ably extended posteriors, are characteristic of the whole Hot- 
tentot race ; but in some of the small Bosjesmans they are 
