AFRICA. Ss 
piaifarice ; but I confefs that, when I faw hiai 
enter my tent with his quiver at his back, his 
buckler on his arm, and his body nobly orna- 
mented with a long mantle which fwept the 
ground, and when he fternly refted on his 
lance, with his head elevated, and a determined 
look, I was ftruck with his martial air and his 
dignified appearance. 
He feveral times interrupted my work to ad-^ 
mire it ; while I, tranfported in imagination to 
the remoteft periods, and to countries fituated 
under the lame latitude on the other fide of 
the equator^ feemed to behold a Jugtirtha or a 
Syphax in arms, marching to combat in the 
deferts of Numidia, in defence of his kingdom 
againft the Romans. In writing my notes, 
therefore, every time I had occafion to fpeak of 
this warrior, I always mentioned him under 
the name of my Jugurtha, 
The hair of this tribe, which is exceedingly 
fhort and much curled, is ornamented with 
fmali copper buttons, arranged with great art 
and fymmetry. Inftead of that apron made' 
of a jackal's Itin, employed by the Hottentot 
to cover what modefty bids him conceal, the 
Kabobiqiias life a round piece of leather, the 
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