Pelvis, with a maximum difference in structure according as it is male or female; that of the former being strong and dense, that of the latter, light, and delicate. In both cases a minimum of diploe between the bony plates; ossa ilii, vertical; sacrum, narrow; conjugate diameter, short; neck of the thigh-bone, short, and with an oblique direction.[178]—Vrolik.—Oftener wedge-shaped or oblong, than oval, round, or square.—Weber.
Buttocks often steatomatous.[179]
Physical condition of area.—Karroos, i.e. elevated terraces and table-lands, with the soil dry, hard, clayey, fissured, rarely moistened with rain, and chiefly productive of the succulent classes of the vegetable kingdom.
Language.—Containing two inarticulate elements, viz. h (like other tongues), and a peculiar and characteristic click.
Intermixture.—Dutch, the Griquas of the Orange River being a mixed stock.
Habits.—Pastoral and hunter state; the latter exhibiting the lower forms of the type (i.e. the Saabs, or Bushmen, once disconnected from the others, and considered as forming a separate and more degraded class).
1.
HOTTENTOTS.
The extinct sections of the Hottentot division are:—
- Gunyeman, nearest the Cape.
- Kokhaqua, north of the Gunyeman.
- Sussaqua, Saldanha Bay.
- Odiqua.
- Khirigriquas, on Elephants' River.
- Koopmans.
- Hessaquas.
- Sonquas, east of the Cape.
- Dunquas.
- Damaquas.
- Guariquas.
- Honteniquas.
- Khantouers.
- Heykoms, as far on the north-east as Natal. Now replaced by Amakosah Kaffres.
Extant.—1. Gonaquas, south-east, on the Great Fish River. Probably replaced by Amakosah Kaffres.