112 TRAVELS IK 
Xjeijfiquaszndi t\\t Koraquas^ in whofe country 
I found the giraffes, of which I ftiall fpeak in 
my fecond voyage. The philafopher Kolben 
afluredly never travelled fo far, except in ima- 
gination. 
Dr. Sparmann has doubtlefs fuffered hlm- 
felf to be deceived refpe£ting the Gonaquas, 
when he is inclined to believe that thefe 
hordes ufe circumcifion. The planters af- 
firmed this to me as well as to him 5 and on 
this account I found a powerful temptation 
to doubt the truth of it : but having fince 
had better opportunities than any one of fatif- 
fying myfelf concerning fo important a fa(3:, 
I declare, on the contrary, that this nation, 
and all the Hottentots without exception, 
have the prepuce of a prodigious fize ; a 
mark that fufficiently diftinguifhes them 
from all other favages, and which certainly 
has not been obferved before. 
The cafe is the fame refpe<5ing that dif- 
gufting apron of the Hottentot women, 
which has long made a confpicuous though 
ridiculous figure in hiftory, or rather in the 
fables of the vulgar. Another whim, always 
proceeding from the fame fource, has as 
rafhiy fupprefied it; though it is ftill fafliion- 
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