rings of thefe metals were alfo worn on the legs above the
ankles. Glafs beads furrounded their necks ; and many of the
men had porcupine quills ftuck through the ear.
Neither had the wives of the chiefs any diftindion of drefs
from the reft of the women. They all wore caps, made of
ikins, fitting clofe to the head, and hanging behind, and down
each fide, in long divided flaps. Each feemed to have decorated
their drefs, without any fixed order, as caprice had fug-
gefted, or as their circumftances would allow. Small beads of
copper, rings of iron, brafs buttons, old knee-buckles, or what-
foever metallic material had fallen into their hands, found a
place on fome. part of their drefs.; Some had a brafs button
ftuck in one ear, and in the other a firing of glafs beads or a
ihell. They had no change of habit, hut each carried her
whole wardrobe about her perfon.' Some had not fewer than
fifty different firings of necklaces about the neck ; a number of
rings round their legs and arms of copper and iron; and on
t h e i r calf-lkin cloaks were ftitched feveral rows, from top to
bottom, of old buttons, as various in ihape, fize, and faihion, as
a button-maker’s card. Some had feftoons of fmall cypnea
fhells round their caps; others had made them into bracelets
and necklaces. Sufpended from the neck moft of them carried
the Ihell of a fmall land tortoife, (the tejludopufilla,) which held
a quantity of red ochre, and a thin piece of leather to ruh it
upon their faces.
The young hoys were perfectly naked ; and the only ornament
about them was a fmall tuft of the long white hair from
the
the rump of the fpringbok, which was ftuck upon the crown of
the head.
On the fecond of September we ikirted the banks of the
Kareeka, towards the fea-ihore, perpetually palling through
multitudes of Kaffers and their herds of cattle. O f the latter^
the colleded opinion of the party was, that there could not
have been fewer' feen, in the courfe of this day’s journey, than
five thoufand head. Among thefe were oxen of remarkable
fize and ftrength, vaft numbers of cows, in general much larger
and handfomer than thofc of the colony, fome of them not unlike
the Alderney cow ; others were without horns, fmall and
ftrong, refembling the black cattle that come down from the
Highlands of Scotland. The horns o f the large oxen were
twifted with great pains into a variety of lhapes. The points
o f fome were brought to meet under the neck ; others were
drawn into ftraight lines proje&ing horizontally from each fide
of the head; fome had one horn pointed dire&ly into the air,
and the other to the ground; and others, rifing parallel from
their bafes, had their points turned back, which gave them the
appearance of huge antelopes; Some had large circular pieces
cut out of the dewlap ; others had this part cut into firings, and
hanging in taffels. Not a iheep nor goat were to be feen.
The Kaffers, in fad, never breed any of thefe animals. Dogs
in innumerable quantities made their appearance, but fo mife-
xably poor that it was painful to look at them. They feemed
to be a fin all kind of cur. They had no horfes. Dogs and
.cattle were .the only animals they pofleflcd.