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ehange of dried skins for beads, metal buttons, 
and other such ornaments, is considered as by no 
means a prudent alteration. The Hottentots, of 
both sexes, when young, are by no means defi- 
cient in personal appearance ; but as they grow 
old, the two sexes, females especially, lose their 
shape, and become immoderately fat. The num- 
ber of Hottentots in the district of Graaf Reynet 
is estimated at 10,000. 
The mission now set out for Kaffreland. A 
party of armed colonists offered to accompany 
them, solely, it was suspected, with a view to 
amusement, and secretly perhaps to plunder ; but 
the party courageously resolved to trust to the 
good character of the Kaffres, and shew no symp- 
toms of fear. They soon arrived at a party of 
about three hundred. The men appeared the fin- 
est figures they had ever seen, tall, robust, and, 
muscular, with a firm carriage and an open manly 
countenance. The women were of low stature, 
strong limbed, and by no means handsome ; but 
their extreme gaiety and good humour, without 
any mixture of immodesty, prepossessed our tra- 
vellers much in their favour. The habitations 
were merely twigs bent into the form of a parabola, 
covered with grass and branches of trees, and were 
evidently built only for temporary use. The mis- 
sion having complained of the inroads made into 
the colony, the chiefs stated, that these were 
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