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and common to the whole horde. Savage 
animals oftea go thither to feed at their lei- 
fure, and this preferves the air pure, which 
would otherwife foon become corrupted, by 
the multitude of carcafles that are heaped to- 
gether. Funeral honours are due only to 
kings and the chiefs of each horde. The 
bodies are covered with a heap of ftones, col- 
le£ted into the form of a dome; and this ac- 
counts for that leries of fmall mounts feen 
ranged in a line near Bruyntjes-Hoogte, which 
formerly belonged to the CafFres. 
I am not acquainted with the difpofition of 
the GafFres in refpeft to love, and I do not 
know whether they are jealous. I however 
imagine that they are fo only with their own 
countrymen ; for they readily give up their 
women to the firft white man who wifhes to 
enjoy them, provided they receive a fmall re- 
tribution. Hans repeatedly gave me to un- 
derftand, that all thofe whom I admitted into 
my camp were at my fervice, and that I had 
nothing to do but to make a choice : indeed 
there were no kind of allurements which they 
did not throw out before their hufbands to 
lead me into their fnares ; and the latter were 
' perhaps 
