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by him to prevail in all their manners and cuftoms ; their 
voices were fhrill, diflbnant, and fcarcely human ; their lan- 
guage almoft inarticulate ; and they wore no clothing. The 
Ethiopian foldiers, when called upon to defend them- 
felves, or to face an enemy, ftuck their poifoned arrows within 
a fillet bound round the head, which, projeding like fo many 
rays, formed a kind of crown. The Bosjefmans do exadly 
the fame thing ; and they place them in this manner for the 
double purpofe of expeditious fhooting, and of ftriking terror 
into the minds of their enemies. 
The whole of the Hottentot country, comprehending all the 
different tribes of this people, is limited to the thirty-fecond 
degree of latitude on the eaft coaft, and the twenty-fifth on the 
weft. Beyond the line, connecting thefe two points, the 
various Kaffer tribes occupy a broad belt quite acrofs the con- 
tinent ; and no two people can differ more than the Bosjef- 
mans and the KafFers, having no one agreement either in their 
phyfical or their moral charader. 
The Bosjefmans, though in every refpeCt a Hottentot, yet 
in his turn of mind differs very widely from thofe who live in 
the colony. In his difpofition he is lively and chearful ; in 
his perfon adlive. His talents are far above mediocrity ; and, 
averfe to idlenefs, they are feldom without employment. Con- 
fined generally to their hovels by day, for fear of being fur- 
prifed and taken by the farmers, they fometimes dance on 
moon-light nights from the fetting to the rifing of the fun. 
They are faid to be particularly joyful at the approach of the 
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