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becaufe that when that Cape was doubled, he had good 
hopes of finding out a way by Sea to the Eaji Indies, 
about which he was then very folicitous- 
The Hottentots, Natives of this Place, are a Race of Men 
dittinft both from Negroes and European Whites , for their 
Hair is Woolly, Short and Frizled, their Nofes flat, and 
their Lips thick, but their Skin is naturally as White as 
ours, as appear’d by a Hottentot Child brought up by the 
Dutch in their Fort here. Their Stature is univerfally of 
a middle Size ; they are clean limb’d, well proportion’d, 
and very nimble. I never faw a Fat Perfon among 
them. 
They befmear their Faces and Bodies all over with Suet, 
cr other Oleaginous Stuff, which, together with expofing 
their Bodies to a warm Sun, makes their Skin of a Tawny 
Colour, and caufes them to ftink fo, that one may fmell 
’em at a eonfiderable diftance to the Windward 5 they 
adorn their Hair, which is always clotted with Greafe 
and naftinefs like the Thrums of a Mop, with Shells, pei- 
cesof Copper, Sec. Both Sexes are clad with the Skin com- 
monly of a Sheep, but foroetimes of fuch Wild Beafts as 
they happen to kill, the Hairy fide outward in Summery 
and inward in Winter, off which I have feen ’em pick 
and eat the Lice in the Streets : The Women wear Skins 
cut in Thongs about their Legs, to the length of a great 
many Yards 5 which when dry, with the infide our, look 
fo like Sheeps Guts, that moft Strangers miftake ’em for 
fuch. The Men bang their Privities in a Bag, and the 
Women cover theiss with a Flap or Apron made of Skin. 
The Women wear a Cap of 5 kin juft dried and ftitch’d 
together, whereas the Men commonly go bareheaded j 
they go bare-footed, except that when they Travel they 
wear a piece of a Skin fatten'd about their Feet. Their 
Weapons are Javelins, with which they are very dextrous 
at hitting the Mark, and Bows with Poyfon’d Arrows, 
which 
