Bosjesman

Hottentots are not, as it is said, thought well of -- being even tipsier than the rest; but I may see a full-blood one, and even a true Bosjesman, which is worth a couple of hours 'drive; and the place is said to be beautiful.

Letters from the Cape Lucie Duff Gordon 1845

(Bosjesman for something desperately insulting I have no doubt) — conscious of an affectionate yearning towards that noble savage, or is it idiosyncratic in me to abhor, detest, abominate, and abjure him?

Reprinted Pieces 2007

A something with a scarf round its neck, and a slipshod speech issuing from behind the scarf; more depraved, more foolish, more ignorant, more unable to believe in any noble or good thing of any kind, than the stupidest Bosjesman.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

In the skeleton of a male Bosjesman, in the same collection, the proportions, by the same measurement, to the spinal column, taken as 100, are — the arm 78, the leg 110, the hand 26, and the foot 32.

Essays 2007

Or it will assume the form of a bush, if indulged, till Sally is almost hidden under it, as the Bosjesman under his version of Birnam Wood, that he shoots his assegai from.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

He was not much superior in development to the anthropoid apes that we now know -- in fact, there is less difference between an orang and a Bosjesman than there is between the primitive man and the modern Caucasian man.

The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871

The Hottentot or Bosjesman tribe -- the negro "Bushmen" of South Africa -- are described by M. Bory de St. Vincent as forming the transition between man and the genera of Orangs and Gibbons.

Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis, T. W. MacMahon 1862

Their women, particularly those of the Bosjesman, according to Soemmerring,

Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis, T. W. MacMahon 1862

Mean as the meal was, on the bare board, with its old gallipots for cups, and what not other sordid makeshifts; shabby as the woman was in dress, and toning down towards the Bosjesman colour, with want of nutriment and washing, --- there was positively a dignity in her, as the family anchor just holding the poor shipwrecked boiler-maker's bark.

The Uncommercial Traveller 1861

This woman, like the last, was woefully shabby, and was degenerating to the Bosjesman complexion.

The Uncommercial Traveller 1861