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KARL JULIUS, A HOTTENTOT I1ERD-UOY. 
The peculiarity of the Hottentot features is strongly marked in the countenance of the boy who forms the 
subject of the present sketch. The high, broad cheek-bones, the flat nose, the narrow 
chin, and the small, sunken eyes, set wide apart, are all characteristic of the Barnan 
descent.* Most of the Hottentot lads in the Cape Colony are either herd-boys or 
waggon-leaders. The South African bullock-waggons are usually drawn by a team 
of some twelve to twenty oxen, which the driver manages dexterously by means of 
a long and ponderous whip: the foremost ox has a leather thong or ream passed 
round the horns, by which the leader steers the whole team. It is 
astonishing how dexterously these little Hottentot hoys manage the oxen; 
running and shouting, with outstretched arms, like mad dervishes, and 
never appearing to get tired. When the waggon stops, they lie down 
and roll in the sand, then off they start again, amid sun and dust, 
running, and shouting, and perspiring, from morning till night. 
CM R1STI AN MATTHEI, 
* “ Baron," mirl “ h'himi .signify llnltentnt, in thu Scsuto tuui St*rwi languages 
HOTTENTOT WOMAN -.NU 01 lit. 
A IIAI.F*('ASTE HOTTENTOT 
The Griqua and Bastaard are colonial terms for the mixed races of Dutch and African origin. The former 
is less mongrel than the latter, and numbers of them reside at a settlement of their own called Griqua-town 
or Klaarwater, beyond the Orange River; they possess guns and horses, and lead a half-civilised existence. The 
Bastaards comprise every shade and variety of half-castes throughout the colony. They are very numerous; mild, 
and gentle, hut. indolent and dissipated: intoxicating liquors are too strong a temptation for them to resist, and they 
are proverbial for drunkenness, especially in the towns, where brandy and inferior wines are to he obtained at very 
low prices. The subject, of our sketch is a young Griqua, dressed in the usual costume of leather jacket and “ crackers,*’ 
as these skin trousers are termed, with a Dutch felt, hat, ornamented with black and white feathers of the ostrich 
(xtruys vogei). In his hand is a small “ tsehambok," or whip made of hippopotamus hide. 
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