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ground, would give a fhock to her body, which 
made her pofteriors quiver Uke a lump of fhak- 
ing jelly. The little urchin would endeavour to 
^ imitate her ; but not being able, as he had not 
the fame configuration behind, which is pecu- 
liar to the females, he would burft into a 
paflion, while his fifter laughed heartily at his 
difappointment. 
The Houzouana mothers wear on their 
reins, like our miners, a fkin which covers 
this protuberance of the pofteriors ; but which, 
being thin and pliable, yields to the quivering 
of the flefh, and becomes agitated in the fame 
manner. When on a journey, or when they 
have children too young to follow them, they 
place them upon their rump. I faw one of 
thefe women run in this manner with a child, 
about three years of age, that ftood ered: on 
its feet at her back, like a foot- boy behind a 
carriage. 
With this monftrous deformity, who would 
believe that the Houzouana women have a hand 
and foot remarkably delicate; that their arms are 
beautifully formed ; and that thefe parts of their 
body are abfolutely perfed ? Obliged tb follow 
their hufbands in their long excurfions, they 
wear, 
