DRESS OF THE NATIVES. 
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primitivo disciples had, — and was disappointed. When, 
howevor, I passed on to the true heathen in the countries 
beyond tho sphere of missionary influence, and could com- 
pare the people there with tho Christian natives, I came to 
l ho conclusion that, if tho question wore examined in the 
most rigidly sovero or scientific way, tho change offoctod 
by tho missionary movement would be considered unques- 
tionably groat. 
Wo cannot fairly compare tlioso poor people with our- 
selves, who have an atmosphere of Christianity and on 
lightened public opinion, tho growth of centuries, around 
us > to influoneo our deportment; but lot any one from tho 
Natural and proper point of view behold the public mo- 
rality of Griqua Town, Kuruman, Lilcatlong, and other 
villages, and remombor what oven London was a century 
a go, and ho must confess that the Christian mode of treat- 
ing aborigines is incomparably tho boat. 
fho Griquas and Bcchuanas were in former times clad 
much Hko tho Catt'ros, if such a word may bo usod where 
there is scarcely any clothing at all. A bunch of loathor 
strings about oightecn inches long hung from the lady’s 
waist in front, and a prepared skin of a sheep or antolopo 
covered tho shoulders, leaving the breast and abdomen 
bare : the men wore a patch of skin, about tho size of tho 
crown of one’s hat, w hich barely served for tho purposes 
°i decency, and a mantle exactly like that of tho women. 
assist in protecting the pores of tho skin from tho in- 
fluonco of tho sun by day and of tho cold by night, all 
omoarod thomselvcs with a mixture of fat and ochre; tho 
head is anointed w r ith pounded blue mica schist mixod with- 
and tho fino particles of shilling mica, falling on the 
body and on strings of beads and brass rings, wore con- 
sidered as highly ornamental, and fit for tho most fasti- 
dious dandy. Now thoso same people como to church in 
docent though poor clothing, and behave with a decorum 
c °rtainly superior to what seems to have been .ho caso in 
die time of Mr Samuel Popys in L< ndon Sunday is well 
