band who lived in isolation in the arid interior of South Africa:
They were small in stature, all below five feet; and the women still shorter;
their skin was of a sallow brown colour.
. . Though small, and delicately
made, they [the men] appeared firm and hardy; and my attention was forci-
bly struck by the proportional smallness, and neatness of their hands and
feet ...
The women were young; their countenances had a cast ofprettiness,
and, I fancied, too, of innocence; their manners were modest, though unre-
served . . . One of them wore a high cap of leather, the edge of which pro-
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