.775- ther is cold, that this krofs (as they call it) or karofs, is quite fufficient to' cover them. The cloak, or karofs, which is ufed by the women for the fame purpofe, does not differ from thofe ufed by the men in any other refpeft, than that the women have a long peak on their karojes, which they turn up, forming with it a hood or little pouch, With the hairy fule inwards. In this they carry their little children, to which their mothers breafts are now and then thrown over the fhoulders, a pra&ice that likewife prevails with fome other nations. . The men in general wear no peculiar covering on their heads. I fcarce remember to have feen above two, that had a cap made of a greafed ikin, the fur of which had been taken off in the preparation. Thofe who live neareft to the colonifts, fancy the European hats, wearing them flouched all round, or elfe with one fide turned up. The women in like manner frequently go bare-headed. When they cover their heads, it is with a cap in the form of a ihort truncated cone. It is made without any feam, of the fegment of fome animal’s ftomach, and is as black as foot mixed up with fat can make it. Thefe are frequently fo prepared, as to look as i f they were ihaggy, and others again like velvet, and upon the whole make a tolerably handfome appearance. (See Plate IX.) Over this cap they fometimes wear another ornament, c o n f i f t i n g o f an oval wreath, or, i f the reader pleafes, a crown made o f a buffaloe’s hide, with the brown hair outwards. (See Plate VII. fig. S-) This is about the breadth 01 of four fingers in height, and furrounds the' head ib as to go a little way down upon the forehead, and the fame depth into the neck behind, without covering the upper part of the cap above defcribed. Both edges of this wreath, as well the lower one on which it reils, as the upper one, are always fmooth and even, and each of them fet with a row of fmall ihells, o f the cyprea kind, to the number of more than thirty, in a manner, that being placed quite eloie to each other, their beautiful white enamel, together with their mouths, is turned outwards. Between thefe two rows o f ihells run one or two more in a parallel line, or elfe are waved or indented, in various taftes. It may eafily be imagined, what a.pretty effe£t thefe ihells have, flicking out of the brown fur of the buffaloe’s ikin, and at the fame time, with what additional charms a greafy Hottentot dame appears in a cap and wreath to the full as greafy as herfelf. The ears of the Hottentots are never adorned with any pendant or other ornament hanging from them, any more than the nofe, as they both are among other favages; this latter, however, is fometimes by way of greater ilate, marked with a black ftreak of foot, or, more, rarely indeed, with a large fpot o f red-lead; of Which latter, on high days and holidays, they likewife put a little on their cheeks. The necks of the men are bare, but thofe of the women are decorated with what is, in their opinion, a great ornament. It confifts of a thong of undreffed leather, upon which, are ftrung eight or ten ihells. Thefe, which are about the fize o f beans, have a white ground, with large black fpots o f different f i z e sbut as they are always made ufes
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