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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
“ The Kaffirs seen by Le Vaillant,” says Walknaer, 
“ were most of them taller than either the Hottentots or 
the Gonaquas. They have neither the retiring jaws nor 
prominent cheekbones which are so repulsive in the 
Hottentots but are less noticeable in the Gonaquas, 
neither have they the broad flat faces and thick lips of 
their neighbours the negroes of Mozambique. Their 
faces, on the contrary, are round, their noses fairly pro¬ 
minent, and their teeth the whitest and most regular of 
any people in the world. Their complexion is of a clear 
dark brown ; and, but for this one characteristic, says 
Le Vaillant, any Kaffir woman would be considered very 
pretty, even beside a European.” 
During Le Vaillant’s sixteen months of absence, the 
