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DAMARA COUNTRY. 
[1813. 
remembered long. Such distinctions are unknown be- 
yond the grave. There character depends on genuine 
worth. 
The Damaras are often at war with the Namacquaas. 
These wars are generally in consequence of their 
stealing women from each other. In these their 
endeavours are directed to the obtaining each other's 
cattle. The prisoners taken by the Damaras are 
not put to death, but are made either servants or 
interpreters. 
If strangers visit them peaceably, they are kindly 
treated. They have gardens surrounded by hedges, iri 
which they raise calabashes, pumpkins, &c. The men 
wear no clothing except a small apron before, and the 
women a piece of skin wrapped around their middle. 
The country has few hills, few trees, hardly any bushes, 
but much grass, though the soil is chiefly sandy. I 
could only hear of two rivers, the Noeyop and the 
Nossop. 
