BUSHMEN

(Dutch, Bosjesmannen, men of the tcood.) A name given by the Dutch colonists to some roaming tribes akin to the Hottentots, in the vicinity of the Cape of Good Hope. The description given by Governor Jan ens of this people is very interesting. So deep are they sunk in barbarism as to be unacquainted even with the construction of huts or tents: " the burning sky being their canopy, anil the scorching sand their bed." They are of a dark copper complexion, small in stature, and of a singularly malicious, wild, and intractable disposition. [s. 190]