THe Cabona's are a very black People, * 1.1 with Hair that hangs down their Backs to the Ground.
These are such inhumane Cannibals, that if they can get any Men, * 1.2 they broyl them alive, and eat them up. They have some Cattel, and plant Calbasses, with which they sustain themselves.
They have, by report of the Hottentots, rare Portraitures, which they find in the Mountains, and other Rarities: But by reason of their distance, and bar∣barous qualities, the Whites have never had any converse with them.
In the Year Sixteen hundred fifty nine, one of the Chainouquas, call'd Chaihan∣timo, went into the Cabonas Countrey, and with the help of the People took and brought thence one of their Women, whom he made his Wife.
The Netherlanders stirred up with a desire to see this strange sort of People, desired Chaihantimo that he would order this Woman to come to the Fort of Good Hope; whereto, upon promise of a Requital, he consented, and sent some of his People to fetch, and tell her, That her new-married Husband would desire her to come to a People call'd Dutchmen, who wore a great many Clothes, such as neither she nor any of her Nation had ever seen.
This Woman, partly out of obedience to her Husband, and partly for No∣velty to see Strangers, after two days preparation, drest in her best Appa∣rel, came thither, under the Conduct of thirty or forty Chainouquas, for an Aid and Guard against the Cockoquas, with whom the Chainouquas were at that time in War: But after some days travelling, she was set upon in a great Wood, and kill'd, and her People put to flight, who hasted to the Cape to Chai∣hantimo, to carry him News of this sad misfortune; whereupon he immediately withdrew to his own Countrey, to revenge himself by force of Arms for this Injury.