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K A B L JULIUS, A HOTTESTOT 1-IEHD-BI)Y.
THR peculiarity of the llottentot features is strongly marked in the countenance of the boy who forms the
subject of the present sketch. The higb. broad cheek-l)ones, tlie flat nose, the narrow
chin, and the small, sunken eyes, set wide apart, are all characteristic of the Baroan
descent.* Most of the Hottentot lads iu the Cape Colony arc either hei'd-boys or
waggon-leaders. 'Ilie South Aftican 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 pondei'ous 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 llottentot boys manage the oxen;
j-unning and shouting, with out-stretched aims, 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 inoniing till night.
• " /iflTuii," and " A7<««i," signify Hottentot, in lii« SPBIIIO nti.l Seroii lanKiiages.
HOTTENTOT WOMAN ANT?
C H J . U S T I A N MATTEEl,
\ HALF-CASTE HOn'liN-TOT.
THE Griqua and Bastaard are colonial terms for the mixed races of Dutch and African ongin. The foi-mer
is less mongrel than the latter, and immbers of them reside at a settlement of their own called Giiqua-town
or Klaarwater, bey<md the Orange River; they possess guns and horees, and lead a half-civilised existence. The
Bastaards comprise every shade and variety of half-castes thi'oughout the colony. They are very numeious; mild,
and gentle, but 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 be obtained at verylow
prices. The subject of our sketch is a young Griqua, dressed in the usual costume of leather jacket and " crackers,"
as the.se skin trousers are termed, with a Dutch felt hat, ornamented with black and white feathers of the ostrich
(stniys voffef)- In his hand is a small " tschambok." or whi)) made of hippopotamus hide.