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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. 
[1820. 
These people consider it so unmanly to cry out 
when receiving punishment, that had this person 
done so, it was thought they would have thrust 
their spears into his body. 
The King, on returning with us to the waggons, 
found the pack-oxen arrived with the buffalo 
flesh. On being shown the part which was al- 
lotted for him, he inquired where the paunches 
Avere for his dogs. Learning that some of the 
people had taken them away from the place where 
the animals were cut up, he first ordered his ser- 
vants to carry home his share, and to make 
ready part of it directly, and then ran off with 
his sambok in his hand in quest of the paunches. 
Therm. 74. 
The manners and customs of the Mashows 
are very similar to those of the Matchappees. 
The houses are built much alike, only at Mashow 
they have in front what, in Cape Town, are called 
stoops or terraces. They are about three feet 
wide, raised about five inches above the ground, 
and ornamented by being cut in the form of a 
crescent. Like the Matchappees they purchase 
their wives from their parents for cattle. 
"We witnessed a woman shaving the head of 
another with a razor shaped like a round spade, 
it was of steel, and had a good edge. She sharp- 
