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563.
Some account of the Cape of Good Hope

the Cape in which they retaind their original Customs  those who come to the Cape  which are in number not a few  are all Servants of the Dutch farmers whose cattle they take care of & generaly run before their waggons  these no doubt are the lowest & meanest of them & those alone I can describe

These were in general slim in make & rather lean than at all plump or fat  in size equal to Europeans  some as tall as 6 feet & more  their eyes not expressive of any liveliness but rather dull & unmeaning  the Colour of their skins nearest to that of soot owing in great measure to the Dirt which by long use was ingraind into it  for I beleive that they never wash themselves  their hair curld in very fine rings like that of Negroes or a Persian Lambs skin  but hanging in falling ringlets 7 or 8 inches long  their Cloths consisted of a skin generaly of a sheep

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