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tale merely Invented on purpofe by my Hot- 
tentot humori-ft. The latter, however, who 
endeavoured to perfuade them of the truth 
of it, told them, that as foon as I knew It I 
w^ould not reft fatlsfied until I fhould be con- 
vinced by my own eyes. Their Immoderate 
laughter was then renewed with louder burfts 
than ever : they all fpoke at the fame time, 
and feemed very Impatient that the ufual 
hour of my drinking tea was not yet arrived. 
Having called Klaas, I learned from him that 
Jan, one of my chafleurs, affured him, that he 
had difcovered, after dinner. In the horde, a 
Hottentot woman, who had that peculiar 
conformation which I always confidered 
as a fable, becaufe I had never feen it la 
any of the countries through which I pafled, 
notwithftandingall my enquiry and refearches, 
though one of my people had before aflerted 
the fame fad,- and though my whole troop 
had fome knowledge of it by hearfay, and by 
a tradition pretty generally difFufed. He in- 
deed related to me, In the mlnuteft manner, 
and with all the energy, or rather Ingenuity, 
of his language, what the moft unexpefted 
accident had permitted him to examine at his 
leifure, and In the completeft manner. 
Being 
