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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
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology Manners and customs Savages
Publisher: Hartford : J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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eft traces of his presencewherever he went, and, if the wearer hap-pened to lean against anything, he caused astain which could not easily be removed.Suspended to his neck is seen the all-per-vading Bechuana knife, and exactly in frontis the shell of a small tortoise, in which hekept his snuff. The leathern cap is universal among tliemas among other Hottentots, and as the fur isretained, it can be )nit on with some degreeof taste, as may be seen by reference tothe portrait. The use of sibilo is commonamong the Korannas, and, like other Hot-tentof tribes, the women load their hair sothickly with this substance, that they appearto be wearing a metal cap. Their languageis full of clicks, but not so thickly studdedwith them as that of the Hottentots, and ina short time any person who understandsthe ordinary Hottentot dialect will be ableto learn that of the Korannas. These triljcs have a dance which is verysimilar to that of Bosjesmans, a drum beingused, made of a joint of aloe over which
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ija) MUSICAL ALPHxVBET. 273 an undressed sheepskin is stretched. Tliewomen sit on the ground in a circle, witlitlieir arms stretched towiird the dancer, andsiugiug a song very mucli resemliling theAye-0 of the Bosjosmans. The dancerleans against two sticks, as if the\ werecrutches, t\vines his arms around his liody,and sways himself backward and forward,bending first toward one of the women, andthen toward another, until he loses liisbalance, and as he falls is caught in the out-stretched arms of the woman who happensto be nearest to him. Of course, she falls onthe ground with the shock, and as soon asthey can rise to their feet he resumes hisplace in the circle, replaces the sticks underhis arms, and dances with renewed vigor,while she takes her seat again, in order tocatch him if he should happen to fall againin h.^r direction. The women, by the way, are liable tothat extraordinary conformation which hasalreaily been mentioned when treating ofthe Hottentot, and to European eyes thei

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