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1841 C.J. Lever Charles O’Malley 221: ‘Such an ungainly savage I never met,’ I would say. To which he would reply, ‘Bad enough he is certainly; but, by Jove! when I think of your Hottentot, I feel grateful for what I’ve got.’.at Hottentot, n.