CHAPTER VII. 



I HAVE so often men- 

 tioned "Kafir kraals," 

 that perhaps I ought to 

 give a fuller description of 

 them. 



A kraal consists of a group of 

 huts belonging to one family, and is 

 large or small in proportion to the members 

 of the family inhabiting it. Every wife has a 

 separate hut, the husband's hut being in the 

 centre of them. A neat pile of firewood gene- 



