They are a timid race, and in bodily development often resemble the aborigines of Australia.

They have thin legs and arms, and large, protruding abdomens, caused by the coarse, indigestible food they eat.

Their children's eyes lack lustre.

I never saw them at play.

A few Bechuanas may go into a village of Bakalahari, and domineer over the whole with impunity; but when these same adventurers meet the Bushmen, they are fain to change their manners to fawning sycophancy; they know that, if the request for tobacco is refused, these free sons of the Desert may settle the point as to its possession by a poisoned arrow.
The dread of visits from Bechuanas of strange tribes causes the Bakalahari to choose their residences far from water; and they not unfrequently hide their supplies by filling the pits with sand and making a fire over the spot.