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adduced to fnew that the aflertlon is without any foundation 
in truth. Numbers of Bosjefmans' women are now in the 
colony who were taken from their mothers when infants, and 
brought up by the farmers, who, from the day of their capti- 
vity, have never had any intercourfe whatfoever with their 
countrymen, nor know, except from report, to what tribe or 
nation they belong ; yet all thefe have the fame conformation 
of the parts naturally, and without any forced means. The 
ftory of their perpending pieces of ftone in order to draw down 
the interior labia, is ftill popular in Bruyntjes Hoogte, where 
the author above alluded to received it. It was here that he 
fpent the greateft part of his time with his Narina ; for at that 
time a tribe of Ghonaquas lay on a plain bordering on the 
Great-Fifh river. The vifit of this gentleman is ftill very well 
remembered there, though he takes care to fupprefs any men- 
tion of the country being inhabited by colonifts, which, he 
fuppofed, would have diminifhed the intereft he intended to 
excite. It may be obferved that the people of Bruyntjes 
Hoogte know as little of the Bosjefmans as thefe do of the 
Engllfh, the communication being pretty much the fame. 
The fame author fays it was from a Hottentot woman he made 
his drawing. If the print given in his book has been copied 
from that drawing, it ftiould feem to have been a ftudy rather 
from his own imagination than from nature. 
The elongated nymphs are found in all Hottentot women 
only they are fhorter in thofe of the colony, feldom exceeding 
three inches, and in many fubjeds appearing only as a pro- 
jecting orifice or elliptical tube of an inch, or lefs, in length. 
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