35^ TRAVELS IN 
and a planter, having had it inftilled into him 
in his infancy, had finifhed, like other roman- 
cers, by afferting that he had feen what he had 
only been told. And thus it is, that, through- 
out the whole of the colony of the Cape, 
the planters and even the Hottentots will aflure 
you, that fprinkling with urine is pradifed in 
the marriage ceremonies of the favage hordes. 
I fliall here give the figures of two Great- 
er Nimiquas, a man and woman. The for- 
mer is tisat of the chief, drawn from the 
life, in one of his fittings with me to fmoke a 
pipe. I added to it the portrait of one of his 
wives : but, by fome accident, this portrait was 
loft in my return to Europe. 
For want of it, I have fubftituted another ; 
which is that of a woman w^ho long teafed me 
to draw her picture alfo ; till at laft, for my 
amufement, I confented. I mention this, that 
my readers may not judge of the features 
of the Nimiqua woman by thofe of the female 
here offered to their view. She was, in reality, 
one of the moft ordinary in the horde ; they 
are, in general, more agreeable in their per-^ 
fons, and when young may be faid even to be 
|iandfome» 
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