AFRICA; 
To judge of the Gheyffiquas by their fea- 
tures and the clapping of their language, they 
are of the Hottentot nation. They have 
marks of refemblance to the Gonaquas; and, 
from a comparifon of thefe analogies, I believe 
them to have fprung from the Nimiquas and 
the CafFres, as the Gonaquas are defcended 
from the Caffres and the Hottentots. 
The diftrid inhabited by the Gheyffiqua 
nation borders on Caffraria, which confirms 
my conjedture. The people of the horde 
themfelves ihowed me a chain of mountains 
to the eaft, which extending to a diftance was 
loft in the north, and which, inhabited by their 
principal tribes, feparated them from the Caf- 
fres, or at leaft from the Briquas and Bremas, 
whom they confider as tribes of CafFres, 
The Gheyffiqua language appeared to me 
to be nearly the fame as that of the Greatei; 
Nimiquas; yet thefe two people feemed to 
bear lefs refemblance to each other than any 
of the African nations. 
With refpefl: to fuch charaderiftics as are 
not original and derived from nature, as the 
form of their drefs, weapons, inftruments of 
mufic, foadnefs for hunting and dancing, and 
the 
