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BOOTCHUANA 
settled among them, they have adopted the 
custom of shaking hands, and saying " Good 
day." 
All independent persons, or such as have cattle 
sufficient to support their families, are captains, 
or rank as such, though only one in a district be 
really so. If inferior persons acquire property, 
it can be claimed by their captain, and he has 
power even to sell their children. This surely is 
the lowest state of civil degradation. 
When at Lattakoo, I was assured that there 
was not an unmarried man, young or old, in the 
whole town. 
The Matchappees consider dogs and tame cats 
as unclean, they will neither skin nor eat any of 
them, but they will eat wild cats, jackals, wolves, 
&c. 
The teeth of almost every native are as white 
as those of a child, perhaps in consequence of 
not using spirits nor drinking any thing hot. 
Madness, either in men or dogs, is unknown in 
the countries north of the Great Orange River. 
The hottest weather does not affect dogs in this 
respect as in Europe. 
