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so commodious, that many of the peasantry of the Khamies- 
berg have been induced to adopt them. 
These people, hke the Kaffers, pay the greatest attention 
to their cattle ; and, after the manner of that nation, they 
give to the horns of their oxen artificial directions, confining 
the shape generally to the spiral line, something like the 
Koodoo antelope. Those of the Khamies berg, in the pos- 
session both of Dutch and Hottentots, are large boney cattle, 
not in the least degree inferior to those of Sneuwberg. The 
people too in their persons are equally robust with those of 
Graaff Reynet. An old Namaaqua Hottentot woman is a 
figure that the most serious could not behold without laugh- 
ter, and an old Dutch woman of this part of the country 
without pity, the first being remarkable for the prominences- 
of the body, the latter from its want of points and uninter- 
rupted rotundity. The breasts of the former are disgustingly, 
large and pendant ; the usual way of giving suck, when the 
child is carried on the back, is by throwing the breast over 
the shoulder. In this formation of their persons, they agree 
with the Latin Satirist's description of Ethiopian women on, 
the borders of Egypt : 
" In Meroe crasso majorem infante mamillam." 
In the women of ancient Egypt, enormous protuberances 
of the body were very common, and have been attempted to 
be accounted for, by various authors,, from a variety 01 causes. 
Though one of these causes may probably exist in the im- 
purities of the water, yet the essential difference in the eftect 
produced on a Hottentot and Dutch woman, clearly sliews^ 
