298 HOTTENTOTS SUPERIORITY. [1820. 
the same lamentable depth as the Corannas. 
Those of the former nation who travelled with us 
were cheerful, lively, and of active dispositions ; 
while the countenances of the Corannas exhibit 
a total absence of mind, combined with an in- 
describable character of drowsiness. Their 
women are complete sovereigns over the cows 
and the milk. Their children seem playful and 
active ; but in their progress to manhood they 
lose those dispositions. Hottentots, from their 
long intercourse with white men, seem, when 
compared with Corannas, as if they were the de- 
scendants of a superior order of beings ; yet are 
they derived from the same ancestors. 
