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Their wiiole property was very portable, consisting generally 
of a bow and quiver of arrows, a belt of skin, and sonietnnes 
half a cloak, two or three thin grass mats which, when fixed 
between two sticks over a round hole dug in the ground, serve 
for a dwelling, and a wild gourd or an ostrich egg-shell to 
carry a little water. Sometimes they are accompanied by 
little dogs not unlike a species of jackall, having a ruff 
of long hair round the lower part of the neck. Two or three 
of these people were also, like the Koras, monor chides ; and 
the women had those peculiar conformations of certain parts 
of the body, which are so general in the Hottentot race, to a 
very remarkable degree. It appeared indeed that the elonga- 
tion of one part and the protuberance of the other were 
generally in the inverse proportion of the stature of the in- 
dividual. 
In this mixed society the party had the good fortune to 
meet with two persons who had it in their power to render 
' them essential services. The one was a native Boosliuana, 
of the name of Miklango, who spoke a little Dutch, and who 
willingly engaged to accompany them as interpreter ; but he 
was wholly unacquainted with the road Avliich led to his own 
country. The other was his comrade Makauta, who was well 
acquainted with the country, and readily undertook to be 
'their guide. A Dutch boor of the name of Kmger also 
joined the expedition at this place : he had been pointed out 
to them as a man of great resource, and likely to be of use^ 
At an early period of life his brother and himself, having ex- 
ercised their ingenuity in forging the paper currency of tlie 
colony, were banished for life to Robben Island in the mouth 
