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alarming to a Hottentot as the Bosbismen. 
I heard so much of these savage people, 
that I particularly wished to see a man 
of the same tribe. A lucky circumstance 
occurred that gratified my curiosity. A 
colonist, at whose house we sojourned for 
the night, had, many years before, en- 
gaged a party of Bosbismen, and killed 
several ; but was so fortunate as to pre- 
serve an infant, whose mother it was sup- 
posed had been slain during the hunt. He 
was taken home to the farmer's, and reared 
as one of the family. When I saw him, he 
was about twenty-five years old, but not 
more than four feet two inches in stature. 
His nose was not a prominent feature, but 
merely a piece of skin that lay flat over 
the nasal aperture ; and although his make 
was athletic, yet no gazelle could be more 
alert or agile in its motions. When I in- 
quired respecting the supposed origin of 
these people, I was universally answered, 
" they are a distinct race;" and indeed 
their look and figure, when taken toge- 
ther, are sufficient demonstrations of the 
fact. 
