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 of Monomatapa, though a nasty people, ye fo iss. wealth are gentlemen to these; who have no Aus. s houses, and skin garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, c., as the Hod, madeds have: and setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes. They are tall, strait.bodied, and thin, with small, lc l/robs. They have great heads, round foreheads,  great brows. Their eye-lids are always hnlf closed, to keep the /ties out of their eyes l they being so troublesohm here, that no fanning will keep them from coming to one's face; and without the assistance of both hands to keep them o they will creep into one's nostrils, and mouth too, if the lips are not shut very close; so that from their infancy, being thus annoyed with these insects, they do never open their eyes as other people; and therefore they cannot see far, unless they hold up their heads, as if they were looking at somewhat over them. "They have great bottle-noses, pretty full l�s, and wide mouths. The two fore-teeth of their upper-jaw are wanting in all of them, men and women, old and young; whether they draw them out, I know not: neither have they any beards. They are long-visaged, and of a very unpleasant aspect, having no one graceful feature in their faces. Their hair is black, short and

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