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I need only remark, concerning the hair, that among the 
Hottentots it is curly and does not cover the head uniformly ; 
it forms patches separated by bare spaces. Moreover, as re- 
gards the complexion, the expression, ‘ yellowish-brown/ would 
be more suitable, at least in certain cases, than ‘ yellowish- 
red/ 
How, in giving this description, Yon Siebold did not refer 
to the Hottentots, but to the Mongols who inhabit the Corea, a 
country tributary to China. 
Hr. Carpenter describes the Hottentots in the following 
terms : ‘ Thus the face presents the very wide and high cheek- 
bones, with the oblique eyes and flat nose of the northern 
Asiatics ; at the same time that, in the somewhat prominent 
muzzle and thick lips, it resembles the countenance of the 
Hegro. The hair is woolly, like that of the Hegroes, but it 
grows in small tufts scattered over the surface of the scalp (like 
a scrubbing-brush) instead of covering it uniformly ; thus re- 
sembling in its comparative scantiness that of the northern 
Asiatics.’ * 
A long time before the Hutch East India Company had 
taken possession of the Cape, vessels of other nations had 
already dropped anchor in Table Bay and made the acquaintance 
of the inhabitants of the country (1497-1652). But the ac- 
counts of these voyages, of which the sole aim was commerce, 
give us little information about the inhabitants. 
The Portuguese, who changed the original name ‘ Quai-qua, 
Khoi-khoiu, Kanimou-qua P * into that of ‘ Saldanhas/ learned 
more than once, to their cost, that the population, though 
weak and not numerous, could defend itself and was vindictive. 
(1497, Vasco de Gama; 1510, Francisco d’ Almeida ; 1516(F), 
Emmanuel de Souza.) 
The Hutch and English had rather less to complain of. 
(1598, John Havis; 1601, English East India Company and 
Paul de Corniden ; 1608, Maaklof; 1648, Leendert, Jansz. and 
Hie. Proot, Van Biebeek.) 
The natives of the Cape received from the Hutch the name 
of ‘ Ottentos/ which has since become ‘ Hottentots/ At the 
time when the Europeans became acquainted with them, they 
were nomads, who changed their abode continually and lived in 
‘ kraals/ the huts of which were easy to take down and put up 
elsewhere. They were acquainted with metals — at all events 
with iron — which they knew how to work. Their acquaintance 
with this metal, however, does not seem to have been very 
general, as it was considered a precious article, although iron 
ores are not rare at the Cape, particularly in Hamaqua-land. 
Carpenter, Physiology, fifth ed. p. 897. 
