HOTTENTOT COARSENESS

A pigtail is not a wild fluttering mass of disorder about one's headthe seat of the human soulsuch as our Hottentot dandies of today show in their long untidy hair.

Hottentot girls were not spared after the age of seven, nor were Bushman girls, though they did not become mothers till ten or twelve years old; while Kaffir girls married at eight, Somals at six to eight.

Beauty: Personal; Hottentot ideal; Australian; South Sea Islanders; Not valued in squaws; Hindoo ideal; Greek masculine ideal.

As intimated on a preceding page, there are, among Dr. Jakobowski's examples of Hottentot lyrics a few which may be vaguely included in the category of love-poems.

Griqua is a name given to half-bloods of Dutch fathers and Hottentot mothers.

Lastly, the steadily encroaching Namaquas, a superior Hottentot race, lived on the edge of the district.

"About three miles from Walwisch Bay, or Bay of Whales, is a Hottentot village, containing nearly 300 inhabitants, who are a friendly, harmless people, but very indolent and filthy.

The hideous deformity known as steatopyga, or hypertrophy of the buttocks, occurs among South African Bushman, Koranna, and Hottentot women.