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tall man-among ■ them who reaches five feet i but thefie 
fmall bodies, perfectly proportioned) unite with wonder¬ 
ful ftrength and agility a certain air of affurance, bold- 
nefs, and-pride, which awes the I'peftator, and pleafed me 
infinitely. Of all the tribes of favages which I have 
known, none has appeared to me endowed with fo aftive 
a foul, and fo indefatigable a conflitution. Their head, 
though it has the principal characters of that of the Hot¬ 
tentot, is yet more rounded at the chin. They are all'o 
much lei's black, and have that leaden hue of the Malays, 
which, at the Cape, is diftinguiflied by the name of boo- 
guined. Their hair, more frizzled, is fo Ihort, that at firft 
I thought them fliaved. Their nofe is (till flatter than that 
of the Hottentot; or rather, they have no nofe, and the 
organ in them confifts of two flattened noftrils, projecting, 
at molt, five or fix lines. From this nullity of noie it re- 
fults that the Hoozauana, viewed in profile, is ugly, and 
very like a monkey. Viewed in front there appears at the 
fir.lt glance fomething very extraordinary, the forehead 
feeming to occupy more than half of the face. Yet he 
has lo much exprelfion, and fuch large and lively eyes, 
that, notwithftanding this lingular appearance, 1 e is 
agreeable enough to the view. 
“ The heat of the climate freeing him from all neceffity 
of clothing, he is quite naked during the whole year, 
except a very .fmall jackal-lkin tied over his loins by two 
llraps, the ends of which fall on his hams'. Hardened by 
this conftant habit of nudity, he becomes fo infenfible to 
the variations of the afmofpher.e, that, when he transports' 
himfelf from the burning lands of the plain to the fnows 
and frolls of the mountains, he feerns not to feel the cold. 
His hut does not refemble that of the Hottentot. It is 
cut vertically in the middle, fo that one of the Hottentot 
huts would make two of thefe. In their emigrations, they 
fuffer the kraal (or encampment) to remain ; in order that, 
if any other horde of their nation , ,ouId pafs that way, 
they might make ufe of it. On the march, they have no 
other Ihelter for repofe than a mat fufpended and inclined 
on. two lticks; and they frequently fleep on the bare 
ground, when the projection of a rock lerves them for 
ihelter. If, however, they Hop any where to fojourn for 
fame time, and find materials for the conftruftion of their 
huts, they then build a kraal; but, at their departure, 
they leave it like all the reft. This cuftom of working for 
their comrades announces a fociable character, and bene¬ 
volent difpofitions. In fact, they are not only good huf- 
bands and fathers, but excellent afl'ociates. In the lame 
kraal, no one appropriates any tiling to himfelf, but all 
belongs to all. When they meet with other bands of the 
fame nation, they give them a kind reception and protec¬ 
tion ; in ihort, they treat them as brothers, though per¬ 
haps they have never before l'een them. 
The Hoozuana has no other arms than a bow and ar¬ 
row ; the latter are very ihort, and are carried on the 
Ihoulder in a quiver about eighteen inches long and four 
in diameter, made of the bark of aloe-wood, and covered 
with the lkin of a great lizard found in all the rivers. 
Obliged to maintain a numerous, company, and defirous 
of making the horde partake of my plenty of game, I went 
daily to himt, and was always attended by a large number 
of Hoozuanas. If I hunted in the mountains, I climbed 
the rocks with them ; in the plain, I ufed one of my 
liorfes ; but, whether it was their office to follow me, or 
to drive towards me the zebras and gazelles, they were 
always indefatigable; and at whatever pace I put my horfe, 
t law them ftill at my fide. During all the long journey 
which they performed with me, never did they belie their 
character. In many refpeCts they feemed to refemble the 
Arabs, who, equally wanderer's, equally brave and preda¬ 
tory, are unchangeably faithful in their engagements, and 
would defend to the laft drop of blood the traveller who 
purchai’es their Cervices, and puts himfelf under their pro¬ 
tection. Were my project of eroding Africa entirely from 
north to fouth practicable, it could only be with thefe 
Hoozuanas. I am convinced that fifty men of this fober, 
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brave, and indefatigable, nation, would have lufiiced me 
to effectuate it; and I Ihall ever regret having known 
them too late, and undef circumftances in which innu¬ 
merable mrsfortunes had compelled me to renounce my- 
defign, at leall for the prefent.” 
To HOOT, v. n. [ hwt, Wellh ; ■ huer, Fr.] To fhout in- 
contempt.—Matrons and girls Ihall hoot at thee no more. 
Dry den. —To cry as an owl.—The clamorous owl, that 
nightly hoots. Shakefpeare. 
To HOOT, v. a. To drive with noife and fhouts-. — Par¬ 
tridge and his clan may hoot me for a cheat and impoftor, 
if I fail in any particular of moment. Swift. 
HOOT, / [hue e, Fr.] Clamour ; 111 out; noife.—Its af- 
fertion would be entertained with the hoot of the rabble. 
Glanville. 
HOOT'ING, f. The ad: of making the noife of the 
owl, the cry of the owl. 
To HOP, v. n. [hoppan, Sax. happen , Dut] To jump; 
to ikip lightly : 
I would have thee gone, 
And yet no further than a wanton's bird, 
That lets it hop a little upon her hand, 
And with a filk thread plucks it back again. Shakefpeare. 
To leap on one leg.—Men with heads like dogs, and 
others with one huge foot alone, whereupon they did hop 
from place to place. Abbot. —To walk lamely, or with one 
leg lefs nimble or ftrong than the other; to limp; to 
halt: 
The limping fmith obferv’d the fadden’d feaff, 
And, hopping here and there, himfelf a jeft. Dry den. 
To move; to play : 
Softly feel 
Her feeble pulfe, to prove if any drop 
Of living blood yet in her veins did hop. Fairy Queen. 
HOP,/! A jump ; a light leap. A jump on one leg.—• 
When my wings are on, I can go above a hundred yards 
at a hop, Hep, and jump. Addifon .— A place where meaner 
peopie dance. Ainficorth. 
HOP,/.' in botany. See .the generic name Humulu-s, 
in this volume. 
To HOP, v. a. [from hops.] To impregnate with hops.— 
To increafethe milk, diminiflied by flelh-meat, take malt- 
drink not much hopped. Arbuthnot. 
HOP-BIND, /. The plant on which hop grows.—It is 
made felony without benefit of clergy, malicioufly to Cut 
any hop-binds growing in a plantation of hops. Blachjione. 
HOP-GARDEN,/! A garden in which hops are cul¬ 
tivated. 
HOP-GROUND, f. Ground appropriated to the cul¬ 
ture of hops. 
HOP-HILL, /! The hillock railed round earth-plant in 
a hop-yard. Mortimer. 
HOP-KORN'BEAN, [ in botany. See Carpinus. 
HOP'-POLE, f. A tall thin ltick to fupport hops as 
they grow. 
HOPE,/! [hepa, Sax. hope, Dut.] Expectation of fome 
good ; an expectation indulged with pleafure.—Faith is 
oppol’ed to infidelity, and hope to defpair. Taylor. 
Sweet hope! kind cheat! fair fallacy ! by thee 
We are not where or what we be, 
But what and where we -would be : thus art thou 
Our ablent prefence, and our future now. Craufhazu. 
Confidence in a future event, or in the future conduft of 
any perfon.—It is good, being put to death by men, to 
look for hope from God, to be raifed up again by him, 
2. Mac. vii. 14.—Blefied is he who is not fallen from his 
hope in the' Lord. Ecclef. xiv. a.—That which gives hope ; 
that on which the hopes are fixed, as an agent by which 
fomething defired may be effected.—I might fee from far 
fome forty truncheoneers draw to herluccour, which were 
the hope of the Strand where Ihe was quarter’d, Shakef- 
peare. —The objeft of hope s 
She 
