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* Both sexes wear strings of beads intermixed with bits 
of aromatic wood, suspended round the neck, and bracelets 
of beads, buttons, or cowrie shells round the wrists; besides 
Which, the men have a number of thick ivory rings upon the 
left arm. The loins of both are likewise girded with a string 
of copper or iron beads of their own manufacture. "Their 
supernumerary buttons are disposed upon the back of the 
mantle, with some degree of arrangement and taste; not 
perhaps such as would meet the approbation of a Bond-Street 
tailor; but in matters of this sort, until the standard shall be 
finally fixed, every nation has a right to consider its own the 
best. The head-ornaments of the men are as various as 
they are fanciful. A tuft of white hair from the rump of the 
Springbock, a string of nerite shells, a fillet of monkey s 
_ skin, a plume of ostrich feathers, or the tail of a Caffe 
Finch. 
* The offensive arms of the Caffres are the Assagay and the 
Kiri. The Assagay is a light spear, consisting of a slender 
shaft, five feet long, adapted to an iron head, in the fabrica- 
tion of which the whole ingenuity of the Caffre is called into 
play; and it is really astonishing, that, with one stone for a 
hammer, and another for an anvil, such neat workmanship 
should be executed. They are very expert in the use of 
this weapon, and can dart it with tolerable precision. to the 
distance of seventy or eighty. yards. When thrown with 
dexterity, the shaft vibrates in the air like the tail of a fish 
when it moves rapidly through the water. The Kiri is à 
sort of walking-stick, about three feet long, with a large 
knob at the end, By a particular art in throwing it, they 
can kill a hare, antelope, or other small animal, at thirty 
yards’ distance, Every Caffre carries in his hand a bundle, 
consisting of five or six Assagays, a Kiri, and a long taper 
stick, of hardwood, which serves to kindle their fire, 
decide their private quarrels. These latter are, by 
accounts, neither frequent nor sanguinary. Even when they 
become public, and assume the importance of civil Or 
AU national warfare, they are carried on with a gentleness 
and moderation that might be imitated with advantage P 
