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dress of all the Bechuana and pastoral tribes inhabiting the regions we visited, who can afford so extravagant a luxury, is nei- 
ther more nor less than the Roman toga in its rudest and most primitive form; and being simply fastened across the breast, 
may be readily thrown off and resumed according to the caprice of the wearer. In common with the filthy body of the owner, 
these cloaks are so besmeared with a pigment of red ochre and grease, as to contaminate every thing they touch, and even the 
sides and poles of our waggons, against which they frequently rubbed themselves, were indelibly stained with red, like the fleece 
of an English sheep after having been shorn. A more expensive: and very beautiful description of fur mantle is manufactured 
of the skins of smaller animals, such as the jackal, the weasel, and the wild cat, from fifty to a hundred of which are cu- 
riously sewn together with the animal's sinews, and the skin of the head and muzzle left entire in the upper row, so as to form 
a scalloped border. All perforations and flaws are elaborately patched and repaired, the inner side of the garment being finally 
strengthened with a neat leathern edging, stitched with a praiseworthy exactness, that is rendered perfectly wonderful by the 
rudeness of the implements with which it is achieved. The operation of sewing is not confined to the ladies, but performed by 
the gentlemen also, through the agency of a huge skewer ‘or awl, of the most unworkman-like manufacture, and which upon 
occasion would serve to truss a fillet of veal. A hole having been bored with this weapon, a thread is introduced, in texture 
resembling a fine fiddle string; a large bundle of the dorsal sinews of the antelope, from which this article is principally ma- 
nufactured, being usually slung at the girdle, to be converted into thread, and employed also in the important service of 
stringing beads and buttons, as well as to suspend about the neck, knives, whistles, snuff-boxes, and other essentials, which by 
more civilized bemgs would be lodged in the waistcoat pocket. 
by FAA Ry. eee Was eae ae je wi Sy, 
CAAT MD MAES a IT ESEI VERY Oy CADE, LILI FOS. 
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