COASTS OP AUSTRAIuIA. 
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of Monomatapa, though a nasty people* yet for i82i. 
wealth are gentlemen to these; who have no Aug, 23. 
houses, and skin garments, sheep, poultry, and 
fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, as the Hod- 
madods have: and setting aside their human 
shape, they differ but little from brutes. They 
are tall, strait-bodied, and thin, with small, long 
limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads, 
and great brows. Their eye-lids are always 
half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes ; 
they being so troublesome here, that no fanning 
will keep them from coming to one’s face ; and 
without the assistance of both hands to keep 
them off, they will creep into one’s nostrils, and 
mouth too, if the lips are not shut very close ; so 
that from their infancy, being thus annoyed with 
these insects, they do never open their eyes as 
other people ; and therefore they cannot see far, 
unless they hold up their heads, as if they were 
looking at somewhat over them. 
“ They have great bottle-noses, pretty full 
lips, and wide mouths. The two fore-teeth of 
their upper-jaw are wanting in all of them, men 
and women, old and young ; whether they draw 
them out, I know not: neither have they any 
beards. They are long-visaged, and of a very 
unpleasant aspect, having no one graceful feature 
in their faces. Their hair is black, short and 
