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mate as to preferve an infant, whofe motfier 
it was fuppofed had been flain during the 
hunt. He was taken home to the farmer^s 
and reared as one of the family. "When I 
faw him, he was about tvjeiity -five j ears old ; 
but not more X^axi four feet two inches in fea- 
ture. His nofe itvas not a prominent fea- 
ture, but merely a piece of fis:in that lay flat 
over the nafal aperture ; and although his 
make was athletic, yet no gazelle could be 
more alert or arile in its motions. When 
I enquired reipecting the fuppofed origin of 
thefe people, I was univcrlaily anfwered, 
they are a dijilncl race^^ and indeed their: 
look and figure, when taken together, are 
fuiiicient demonilrations of the faft. 
. The Bcflois-men^ when they are.fufficiently 
ftrong in number, attack and kill the Hotten- 
tots and Caffrees v^^herever they find them ; 
and the colonijis hunt the Bofhis-men as they 
do the lion and the tiger. ~k. farmer never 
thinks of giving quarter to thefe people ; 
but flay them the very inftant they are in 
their power. 
. The bow of the Bofhis-men is about tzvofeet 
and a Z^^^/y in length, and their ^arrows of 
which they generally carry a competent 
fl:ock, about two feet two inches from one ex- 
tremity to the other. They are made of a 
certain reed, pointed with a bone which is 
poifoned, and conftrufted fo artfully as to 
remain in the wound after it penetrates. If 
it draws blood, the opinion is, that no ca- 
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