The Hottentots.
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Wherever men greatly preponderate in number over women, the females will enjoy extensive privileges, and if this is the case when a new nation is being formed, the custom 
Portrait of the famous Hottentot chief Jan Jonker Afrikaner, in European dress.
(From a Photograph in the South African Public Library.) regarding those privileges will become fixed. No census having ever been taken of these people in olden times, it is impossible to ascertain what the proportion of the sexes to
