ABSTRACT
I profess to be a scientific man, and was exceedingly anxious to obtain accurate measurements of her shape; but… I did not know a word of Hottentot… All of a sudden my eye fell upon my sextant… I took a series of observations upon her figure in every direction, up and down, crossways, diagonally, and so forth… and thus having obtained both base and angles, I worked out the results by trigonometry and logarithms.
