iSo' TRAVELS IN 
pliyiical qualities of the Hoiizouanas proves, in 
my opinion, that at prefect they form a difl:in£t 
nation ; but what fingularly excited my afto- 
nifliment was the enormous natural rump of 
the women, which, like the artificial ones 
adapted fome years ago by the French ladles, 
diuioguiOies tliem from every other people, 
favage or polilliedj I have ever known* 
. I have I'everal times^ in my former travels, 
had occafion to remark, that, among the fe- 
male Hottentots in general, as they advance in 
age, the inferior part of the back fwells our, 
and acqylres a fize v\/hich greatly exceeds the 
proportion it bore in infancy with the other 
parts of the body. The Houzouana women, 
having in their figure fome refemblance to the 
Hottentots, and appearing, therefore, to be of 
the faille race, one might be induced to believe 
that their proje6];ion behind is only the Hot- 
tentot runip more fwelled and extended. I 
obferved, however, that among tiie former this 
finguhu-iiy was an excrefcence of flow growth, 
and in Ibme meafore an infirmity of old age ; 
whereas cincng the latter it is a natural 
deix;rmity, an original charafterifac of their 
race. 
Reflect. 
