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tereftlng to the reader, and partlcularife only 
fuch as are diftinguifhed by greater powers of 
invention, or progrefs in arts, and thence pof- 
fefs a certain degree of fupericrity. I fhall 
only obferve, that the lefs Nimiquas in gene- 
ral are more ftoutly made, and not lb thin- 
vifaged as the Hottentots in the neighbourhood 
of the Cape. 
The widow had fent to my camp a portion 
of the milk of her herds, and in imitation of 
her example all the women of the horde 
brought fom€ of theirs alfo. This voluntary 
tribute was continued during my ftay at the 
kraal. It recalled to my remembrance thofe 
pleafjng days of my ficft journey, when the 
young Narina brought me every morning milk 
drawn from her goats with her own hands. 
But how great was the difference ! Inftead of 
thofe pretty clean bafkets In which the charm- 
ing Gonaqua offered me her prefent, I here faw 
nothing but wooden bowls, clumfily made, 
and with a rancid and buttery coat round th^ 
edge, at once dlfgufling to the eye and the nofe. 
My Hottentots, little nice in matters of clean^^ 
llnefs, were very well fatisfied with the prefent 
of the Nimiquas i but I, conceiving an invin^- 
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