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left fide, from a wreath of copper beads that encircled his head : 
on his arm he had five large rings cut out of the folid tuflcs of 
elephants, and round his neck was a chain of beads : his cloak 
was faced with fl<;ins of leopards ; but he threw this drefs afide, 
and, like the reft of his people, appeared entirely naked. 
The queen had nothing to diflinguifh her from the other 
women, except that her cloak feemed to have had more pains 
beftowed upon it in the drefTing, and had three rows behind of 
brafs-buttons extending from the hood to the bottom of the 
fkirts, and fo clofe that they touched each other. The reft of 
the women were contented with a few of thefe ftraggling over 
different parts of the cloak. This weighty covering is never 
laid afide in the hotteft weather ; but they wear nothing what- 
foever under it, except the little apron that the Hottentot wo- 
men take fuch pains to decorate. The Kaffer ladies are not 
lefs anxious to appear fmart about the head. Their fkin-caps 
were ornamented with buttons, buckles, beads, or fhells, accord-, 
ing as fancy might fuggeft or their wardrobe could fupply. 
Though the country between the Keifkamma and the refi- 
dence of the king had been rugged, poor, and mountainous, it 
here began to affiime a very different appearance. The knolls 
of grafs were thickly covered, and the hanging woods on the 
fteep fides of the high mountains to the northward were ex- 
tremely beautiful. The village, it feemed, at which he now 
lived, was but a temporary refidence. It was fituated upon the 
Kot)quanie^ a fmall ftream that fell into the Keifkamma ; it con- 
fifted of about forty or fifty huts of the form of beehives. That 
which 
