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Rh and feet diminutive, arms very long, skin looser than that of other races, so that in times of scarcity or old age it was not only deeply wrinkled, but often formed folds; weapons chiefly bow and poisoned arrow; pursuits those of a hunter; government none but parental and leadership in war and the chase; habitations caverns, rock shelters, holes scooped in the ground, or mats spread over slight frames made of branches of trees; only domestic animal the dog; demeanour that of perfect independence; language abounding in clicks and in deep guttural sounds.

Hottentots: frame slight but sometimes tall, better formed than Bushmen, but back hollow, buttocks of the females often protuberant but generally less so than those of Bushmen,