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Title: The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. Wood... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, John George, 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages
Publisher: J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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^are more impervious to weather than thoseof the Kaffir, and, as a necessary conse-quence, are less capable of letting out thesmoke. An European can, on a pinch,exist in a Kaffir hut, but to do so in a skin-covered Hottentot house is almost impossi-ble. To a restless and ever-moviug peoplelike the Hottentots, these mats are absolutenecessaries. A hut of ordinary size can bepacked on the back of an ox, while anotherox can carry all the simple furniture andutensils, together with the young children;and thus a whole family can be moved at afew minutes notice, without much incon-venience. The huts are, in fact, nothingbut tents made of mats, and resemble, inmany particulars, the camel-hair tents ofthe equally nomad Arabs.
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IIOTTEKTOT KKAAL. (See page 228.) (229) NOMAD HABITS OF THE HOTTENTOT. 231 No one — not even the owner — knows,on seeing a Hottentot hut, whether he willfind it in the same place after a few hourshave elapsed. Sometimes, a Hottentot wifewill set to work, pull the hut to pieces, but,instead of packing it on the back of an ox,rebuild her house within twenty or thirty3^ards of its original locality. The object ofthis strange conduct is to rid herself andfiimily from the fleas, which, together withother vermin, swarm exceedingly in a Hot-tentots house, and drive the inmates toescape in the manner related. These un-pleasant parasites are generally attacked inthe early morning, the mantles, sheepskins,mats, and other articles, being taken out-side the hut, and beaten soundly with astick. Sufficient, however, remain to per-petuate tlie breed, and at last, as has beenseen, they force the Hottentot ftiirly to re-move the house altogether. As to the Hottentots themselves, theysuffer but com

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