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or fkeletons, are femlcircular flicks, half of them diminlflilng 
from the center or upper part, and the other half crofling thefe 
at right angles ; forming thus a true reprefentation of the parallels 
of latitude and meridians on an artificial globe. They are in 
general from ten to twelve feet in diameter ; and fo commodious, 
that many of the peafantry of the Khamies berg have adopted 
them. 
Thefe people, like the KafFers, pay the greateft attention to 
their cattle ; and, after the manner of that nation, they give to 
the horns of their oxen artificial dired:ions, confining the fhape 
generally to the fpiral line, fomething like the Koodoo antelope. 
Thofe of the Khamies berg, in the pofleflion both of Dutch and 
Hottentots, are large honey cattle, not in the leaft degree in- 
ferior to thofe of Sneuwberg. The people too in their perfons 
are equally robuft with thofe of GraafF Reynet. An old 
Namaaqua Hottentot woman is a figure that the moft ferious 
could not behold without laughter, and an old Dutch woman of 
this part of the country without pity, the firft being remark- 
able for the prominences of the body, the latter from its want 
of points and uninterrupted rotundity. The breafts of the 
former are difguftingly large and pendant ; the ufual way of 
giving fuck, when the child is carried on the back, is by throw- 
ing the breaft over the fhoulder. In this formation of their 
perfons, they agree with the Latin Satirift's defcription of 
Ethiopian women on the borders of Egypt : 
" In Meroe craflb majorem infante mamillam." 
In the women of ancient Egypt, enormous protuberances of 
the body were very common, and have been attempted to be 
accounted 
