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traveller before alluded to, feem not to be in the fmalleft degree 
overcharged, have moft of them met the fate they fo well 
deferved. Pinaar, and Bernfry, the Baftaards P'let and Klaas^ 
and many others of the fame ftamp, have murdered one 
another, or have fallen by the hands of their own Hottentots, 
Though the Namaaqua Hottentots vary but very little in 
their perfons from the other tribes of this nation, their language 
is widely different. It is obvioufly, however, of the fame 
nature, and abounds with the clapping of the tongue peculiar 
to the Hottentot. They are of a taller ftature in general than 
the eaftern tribes, and lefs robuft. Some of the women were 
very elegant figures, and polTeffed a confiderable fhare of 
vivacity and adivity ; and they had the fame conformation of 
certain parts of the body as the Bosjefmans women, and other 
Hottentots j in a lefs degree, however, than is ufual in the for- 
mer, and more fo than in thofe of the latter. Like the Hot- 
tentot women of the Eaft, the moft ornamental part of their 
drefs was the little fquare leather apron, to which, in addition 
to the border of fhells or beads, were appended fix or eight 
chains in pairs, whofe points dragged on the ground ; the 
upper part of each chain was copper, the lower of polifhed iron. 
They are fupplied to them by the Damaras^ a tribe of people 
to the northward, who will fhortly be noticed. 
The huts of the Namaaquas differ very materially from 
thofe ereded by the Hottentots of the colony, or by the Bof- 
jefmans, or by the Kaffers. They are perfect hemlfpheres, 
covered with matting made of fedges; and the frame- work, 
or 
