AFRICA. 359 
In fize, the Greater Nimlqiias are taller than 
the other Hottentot tribes. They appear even 
to exceed in height the Gonaquas, though 
perhaps they do not in reality. Their flender 
bones, deiicate air, thin fhape, and fmall legs, 
every thing, in (hort, even to their cloaks, 
which reach from their fhoulders to the ground, 
contributed to the illufion. On feeing the 
bodies of thefe men as flender as the ftem of a 
tree, you would almoft fuppofe them to have 
pafil;d through the inftrument of a wire- 
drawer. 
Lefs deep in colour than the CaiTres, they 
have at the fame time more pleafing features 
than the other Hottentots, becaufe their nofe 
is lefs flattened, and their cheeks lefs promi- 
nent. But their cold and unmeaning counte- 
nances, their phlegmatic and immoveable air, 
give them a particular charader by which 
they are diftinguiflied. Every time I looked 
at them, I fancied I beheld one of thofe 
lank, long-vifaged, gothic figures placed at the 
church-doors in certain catholic countries as 
if to ferve as fentlnels. 
I have already faid, that the women do not 
ihare this tranquil apathy. Gay, lively, fpor- 
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