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566.
Some account of the Cape of Good Hope

legs backwards & forwards &c. others again as dull & spiritless as can be imagind  one of which consists intirely of Beating the earth first with one foot & then with the other without moving their place at all  to the Cadences of a tune furnishd with little more variety than the Dance

Smoaking is a custom most generaly usd among them  in doing which they do not as the Europeans admit the smoak no farther than their mouths who but like the Chinese suck it into their Lungs where they keep it for near a minute before they expire it  they commonly mix with their Tobacco the leaves of Hemp which they cultivate for that purpose or Phlomisleonurus which they call Dacha  their food is the same as that of the farmers  cheifly bread & coarse cheese but they are immensely fond of spirituous liquors & will never fail to get drunk with them if they have an opportunity

 

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