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to diminifli. The upper lid of this organ, as in that of the 
Chinefe, is rounded into the lower on the fide next the nofe, 
and forms not an angle, as is the cafe in the eye of an Euro- 
pean. It is perhaps from this circumftance that they are 
known in the colony under the name of Ci?ieezc^ or Chinefe 
Hottentots. Their bellies are uncommonly protuberant, and 
their backs hollow ; but their limbs feem to be in general well 
turned and proportioned. Their adlivity is incredibly great. 
The klip-fpringing antelope can fcarcely excel them in leaping 
from rock to rock ; and they are faid to be fo fwift, that, on 
rough ground, or up the fides of mountains, horfemen have no 
chance with them. And, as the means of increafmg their 
fpeed in the chace, or when purfued by an enemy, the men 
had adopted a cuftom, which was fufhciently remarkable, of 
pufliing the tefticles to the upper part of the root of the penis, 
where they feemed to remain as firmly and conveniently as if 
placed there by nature. It is unnecelTary to add, that fuch an 
operation muft neceffarily be performed at an early period of 
life. 
Curious as this cuftom appeared to be, it was lefs a fubjedt 
of remark than an extraordinary charader that diftinguifhed 
the other fex from the women of moft nations. The well- 
known ftory of the Hottentot women polfeffing an unufual 
appendage to thole parts that are feldom expofed to view, 
which belonged not to the fex in general, is perfectly true with 
regard to the Bosjefmans. The horde we had met vv^ith pof- 
fefled it to a woman ; and, without the leaft offence to mode- 
fty, there was no difficulty in fatisfying curiofity. It appeared 
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