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parlfon of other favages, well made and 
pretty, they perhaps have alfo good fenfe 
enough to believe that ornaments are rather 
calculated to veil imperfeftions than to fet 
off beauties ; however this may be, one never 
fees amongft them that difplay and profu- 
lion of them which are common among the 
Hottentot women. They do not even wear 
copper bracelets; but their fmall aprons, 
which are ftill fliorter than thofe of the Go- 
naquas, are bordered with a few rows of glafs 
beads, and in this all their luxury confifts. 
The {km which the female Hottentots wear 
on their reins behind, among the Caftre wo- 
men rifes to their armpits, and is faftened 
round the neck, which it covers. Like their 
hulbands, they have krofles of the (kins of 
calves or oxen, but always more fmooth : 
they, however, ufe neither the one nor the 
other except in cold or rainy weather. 
Thefe fkins are as foft and pliable as our 
fineft ftuffs ; and with regard to the procefs 
which the CaflTes employ to drefs them, it 
is almoft the fame as that of the Hotten- 
tots, 
Whatever the weather or the feafon may 
be, both fexes go bareheaded. I have in- 
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