Crossword-Solution: SAABS 5 letters, 88 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Hence, want and poverty have acted upon them; and the effect has been that they have become hunters instead of shepherds, have been reduced to a precarious subsistence, and as the consequence of altered circumstances, have receded from the level of the other Koranas, and approached that of the-- _Saabs or Bushmen._--These belong to the parts between the Roggeveld and Orange River; parts which rival the _sterile country_ of the map in barrenness.

The Saabs are described as having constitutions "so much enfeebled by the dissolute life they lead, and the constant smoking of _dacha_, that nearly all, including the young people, look old and wrinkled; nevertheless, they are remarkable for vanity, and decorate their ears, legs, and arms with beads, and iron, copper, or brass rings.

The chief divisions still existing are the _Gonaquas_, the _Koranas_, the _Namaquas_ (between Valvisch Bay and the Orange River), the _Soun Darmup_, of the Dammara Country (to the back of Valvisch Bay), and the _Saabs_, or Bushmen.

The Saabs are described as having constitutions “so much enfeebled by the dissolute life they lead, and the constant smoking of _dacha_, that nearly all, including the young people, look old and wrinkled; nevertheless, they are remarkable for vanity, and decorate their ears, legs, and arms with beads, and iron, copper, or brass rings.