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tinefs, which awes the beholder, and with which 
I was greatly pleafed. Of all the favage races, 
I have feen none that appeared to be endowed 
with fo a£tive a mind, and fo hardy a conftitu- 
tion. 
Their head, though it exhibits the principal 
charafteriftics of that of the Hottentot, is, how- 
ever, rounder towards the chin. They are^ 
alfo not fo black in complexion ; but have the 
lead colour of the Malays, diftinguifhed at the 
Cape by the name of bouguinee. Their hair, 
more woolly, is fo fliort that I imagined at firft 
their heads to have been fhaved. The nofe too 
is ftill flatter than that of the Hottentots ; or, 
rather, they feem altogether deftitute of a 
nofe ; what they have confiding only of two 
broad noftrils which projed: at moft but five or 
fix linesw Accordingly, mine being the only 
one in the company formed after the European 
manner, I appeared in their eyes as a being 
disfigured by nature. They could not be re- 
conciled to this difference, which they con- 
fidered as a monftrous deformity ; and, during 
the firft days of my refidence among them, I 
faw their eyes continually fixed on my coun- 
M 3 tenance, 
