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nature bids them conceaL A fmall cowl, 
which covers only^ the glans, inftead of dif- 
playing modefty, feeins to announce the 
greateft indecency. Tliis fmall covering ad- 
heres to a thong, vi^hich is faftened round 
their girdles merely that it may not be loft; 
for a CafFre, if he is not afraid of being 
hurt or ftung by infeds, cares very little 
whether this cowl be in its place or not. I 
never faw but one man who, inftead of a 
cowl, wore a cafe made of wood, ornamented 
with fculpture : this was a new and ridi- 
culous fafhion, which he had borrowed from 
a nation of black people who lived at a great 
diftance from CafFraria. In the hot feafon 
the Caffres go always naked, and retain no- 
thing but their ornaments : in cold weather 
they wear krolTes made of calves or oxen's 
hides, which reach down to the ground. 
They are. faithfully delineated in the fifth 
and fixth plates, which reprefent a young 
CafFre holding a bundle of affagays, and a 
woman giving fuck to her child. 
A peculiarity, which is perhaps to be found 
no where elfe, and which defeives fome at- 
tention, is, that tlie CafFre women fet very 
little value upon drefs : as they are, in com- 
parifon 
