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It, finilhes the ceremony by pouring on the 
married couple a copious difcharge .of urine. 
In the time of that author, the Kabobiquas 
were not known at the Cape, and I beUeve 
myfelf to be the firfl: perfon by whom their 
name has been mentioned : but it is not im- 
poffible that he may have been told of fome 
bribes, who, more courageous than others, or 
more expofed to the attacks of ravenous ani- 
mals, made it a rule to combat them, and, like 
the Kabobiquas, confidered it as an honour 
to wear their fpoils. A fad: fo fimple, in his 
opinion, would not have made a fufficiently 
brilliant figure in a relation of travels ; nor 
would the reader have felt himfeif inte- 
refted in an unadorned ftory of favages, who, 
to preferve their cattle, declare Vv^'ar againft 
fuch animals as are their enemies. He has, 
therefore, embellifhed the narrative of this 
hunting, and converted it into an order of 
chivalry, to which no one is admitted but 
with particular ceremonies, performed by the 
high prieft, and until he has given convincing 
proofs of his prowefs. But I have infifted 
too long on improbable falfehoods and abfurd 
H % fables, 
