AFRICA. aSj 
here firmly to the arm, they become a luxury 
which is highly pleafing to thofe who have 
been thus decorated in their youth. They 
make necklaces alfo of the bones of animals 
ranged on a ftring, which they have the art 
pf whitening and polifhing in the moft per- 
feft manner, Some of them are contented 
with the whole bone of a leg of mutton ; 
and this ornament njakes a very confplcuous 
figure on the breafl: of a CafFre : it has the 
fame effefl: as a patch on the face of a pretty 
woman in Europe. The Gonaqua women, 
as may be feen in the plate which reprefents 
them, pradllfe the fame coquetry. They 
fubftitute fometimes for this bone the horn 
pf ail antelope, or any thing elfe, according 
to their caprice ; and I am of opinion, that 
one would fee as many varieties, and as ma- 
ny fantaftical ornaments in their drefs, are 
feen in Europe, provided they had the fame 
means and the fame refources. They, how- 
ever, always employ the fame materials, be- 
paufe they have no kinds of fluff to fupply 
the place of thofe fkins with which they 
clothe themfelves. It would appear that 
they are not fo chafte as the Hottentots, be- 
caufe they do not ufe a jackal to veil what 
nature 
