Bushmen

an African tribe inhabiting the northwesterly portion of Cape Colony. Unlike their neighbors, the tall Hottentots, to whom they are akin, the Bushmen are of low stature, almost dwarfs in fact. Their complexion is of a dirty yellowish color. When found by the white people, they lived largely on roots and herbs. They slept in caves or in rudely constructed stick houses in the copse or bush, whence the name. They were without fixed homes, and had no domestic animals. Their language is "half way between that of a man and a monkey." The Bushmen are considered among the most degraded human creatures on the face of the earth. They are disappearing before the advances of the white settlers.