>775^ for fmoking. This inftrument, which has far greater charms for them than all the mufic in the world, certainly merits a defcription, which we ihall therefore attempt in this place. The tobacco-pipes which are made ufe of in thefe parts, and, indeed, every where among the Hottentots (properly fo called) are fhaped pretty nearly like ours, being compofed o f a miferable wooden bowl, and a item of equally coarfe workmanihip. Of the Boihies-men’s pipes, as being fuf- ficiently remarkable, I have given a drawing in Plate VII. where in fig. 3. is reprefented an elk’s horn from a foot and a half to two feet in length, in the aperture o f which, about two inches in diameter, (fee fig. 3. a.) the Boihies- man contrives to fqueeze the whole of his mouth in fuch a manner, that none o f the fmoke can efcape or be loft, but pafles entire, in a column proportioned to the fize of the horn, into his throat, fome part o f it coming out again through his noftrils. To make amends for this, however, five or fix gulps content him; a fit of coughing, hawking, and rattling in his throat enfues, which he, probably, confiders as a very defirable eonfequence. He. then hands this delicious horn to his next neighbour, that he may, in like manner, have the pleafure of fumigating his lungs; and in this way the horn circulates among ’them,' women as well as men, juft as the pipe does in Sweden, among a company o f old women fitting under the chimney in alms-houfes. One of the Bolhies- men, whom I afterwards took into my fervice, when i pafied through the defert in my way to Bruntjes > Hoogte, once fwallowed the fmoke o f his tobacco-hom with fuch avidity, avidity, that I faw him fall down in a fwoon in confe- „ ’77sc • « r* , , _ September* quence of it. At fig. 3. the reader may fee the item pf O-rvJ the pipe fixed at right angles on the fide o f the horn; and the bowl, which is fometimes made o f wood, and fome- times o f fome loofe pebble dug out o f the ground, fatten- . ed on to the top o f the ftem. I have likewife feen goat’s horns employed for this purpofe; but the preference is given to the elk’s horns on account o f their iharp points; they being fo handy for the Hottentot to Hick into the ground clofe by his fide, fo that not a particle o f the tobacco can be loft. One o f thefe tobacco- horns I have brought home with me, and keep it in the collection o f the Academy o f Sciences; though,, having been for the ufe of a little Hottentot Woman, it is fmaller and neater than ufual, being but thirteen inches in length; and the aperture at its bafe, to which the mouth is applied, an inch and a half acrofs. Their tobacco-pouches are made o f the ikin o f a lamb, or of one o f the fmaller fort o f antilopes entire, with the hairy fide turned outwards; fo that in this pouch the Hottentot has at the fame time room enough for his pipe, tinder-box, and the reft o f his implements, for kindling a fire. Befide the accurate information I received at this place on the fubjeCt o f the Hottentot’s mufic, language, and method of fmoking, I had, the evening after my arriyal there, an opportunity o f feeing their card-playing. By this abfurd name, the colonifts have diftinguifhed the following peculiar game among thefe people, which was played in this manner. Both my Hottentots, together with two others,
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