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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

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3, weave their own hair on pieces of hide into the form of buffalo horns; or, as in No.

4, make a single horn in front.

The features given are frequently met with, but they are by no means universal.

Many tattoo their bodies by inserting some black substance beneath the skin, which leaves an elevated cicatrix about half an inch long: these are made in the form of stars, and other figures of no particular beauty.
* Unfortunately these wood-cuts can not be represented in this ASCII text.
No.

1 appears like a wheel with spokes of hair connecting it to the head.
No.


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