Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0668
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Some account of the Cape of Good Hope
under which for decency sake the men wore a small pouch & the women a broad leather flap fastned round their wastes by a belt which in both Sexes was richly ornamented with beads & small peices of Copper besides this both sexes wore necklaces & sometimes bracelets likewise of beads & the women had round their legs certain rings made of Leather very hard which they said servd to defend them from the thorns with which the countrey every where abounds under their feet some wore a kind of Sandal of wood or bark but the greatest number went intirely unshod for bodily qualifications they were strong & appeard nimble & active in a high degree
Their language which appears to an European but indistinctly articulated has this remarkable singularity in that in the pronouncing a sentence they Click or Cluck with their tonges at very frequent intervals so much so that