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encountering wild beafts, particularly the lion, which often 
attacks their folds, and makes great havock. When this 
happens, all the young men of the Kraal go in purfuit 
of him, directed by fmall dogs, who follow his fcent: as 
foon as they difcover him in the bufhes, they irritate him, 
till he fprings out with fury and attacks them; when 
being all armed with haffagays, they often throw twenty 
or thirty into his body at once ; but it is common to lofe 
a man or two in fuch attacks. Thefe Hottentots were all 
cloathed in crojjes , or mantles, made of the hides of oxen, 
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which they drefs in a particular manner, making them as 
pliant as a piece of cloth : they wore the hairy iide out- 
wards . Their breaft, belly, and thigh s, were naked, except 
being croffed by a number of leathern ftraps round their 
middle. They had no other covering for their private 
parts, than a muzzle of leather exadtly covering the ex- 
tremity of the penis, and fufpended by a leathern thong, 
from their girdle, which was commonly ornamented with 
brafs rings. Some had the fkin of a fteenbock hung over 
their breaft, with the fkin of its fore legs and hoofs be- 
hind, which they look upon as a great ornament ; others 
had a buffalo’s tail, faftened to a girdle which was tied 
round the thigh ; others a porcupine’s quill lfuck through 
each ear; others had plates of brafs of fix inches fquare 
faftened to their hair, hanging on each lide of their 
head; others large ivory rings round their arms, with 
feveral other ridiculous fancies too tedious to mention. 
The women were dreffed aimoft in the fame tafte, except 
that a great number of fmall thongs of leather, fufpended 
from 
