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tive, and loving much to laugh, you woulc^ 
fuppofe them to be formed of different mate- 
rials. It is eafy enough to conceive, that a 
man and wife may live peaceably together, 
iiotwithftanding fuch difference of difpofition ; 
but It is not eafy to underftand or explain how 
fuch melancholy fathers can beget daughters 
fo gay, or fuch fprightiy v^omcn bear fon? fo 
dull. 
The krofs differs not at all In ftiape from the 
Hottentot cloak ; only, as I have before re- 
marked, it is longer. Many of them ufe the 
fldns of the hysena, the jackal, or the ifatis, 
when they are lucky enough to procure a fuf- 
ficiency to make a krofs. 
They ornament them with glafs beads, and 
plates of copper, which they obtain from the 
Hottentots of the colony. I found among theni 
a particular fort of thefe beads, ccnfifting of 
little long tubes of different colours, and tranf- 
parent. Thefe being unknown at the Cape, 
1 wiflied to know whence, the favages procured 
them. They informed me, that they got them 
by barter with other neighbouring nations, who 
had them only at the fecond-hand ; and that 
they came originally from the blacks who 
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