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Some account of the Cape of Good Hope

& ornament very prettily  especily the Women who as in all other Countreys are fond of dress  both sexes grease themselves very frequently but never use any stinking grease if they can possibly get either fresh mutton suet or sweet butter  which last made by shaking the milk in a bag made of skin is generaly usd by the richer sort

the Ceremony of the Preist giving his Matrimonial benediction by a plentifull sprinkling of Urine often repeated I heard confirmd. the Dutch however universaly denied their having seen women whose legs were wrappd round with Sheeps gutts  which it has been supposd were to be a part of their food  Their Monorchides or semicastration was in general totaly denied  some however said that among the nation who knew how to melt copper were some who had undergone this ceremony & that these were their best warriors & the individual people who so well knew how to throw stones

 

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