ZOUTPANSBERG AND THE MAQWAMBAS. 



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Magwamba Kafirs numbered, I was told, about twenty 

 thousand. They do not live together in large numbers, 

 but have small scattered kraals consisting of a few 

 huts. A favourite dress of the men is a tiger-cat skin 

 in front and often another one behind, and the women 

 wear a short petticoat. 



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MAGWAMBA WOMAN CRUSHING MEAL. 



There was a small kraal a little behind the store at 

 which I stayed, from which lamentation had ascended 

 for the last three weeks and still continued to resound 

 across the wooded veld. The head man of this village, 

 who started to work at Kimberley, had died on the 



