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with some of the dry leaves, he goes on his way. The 

 case is still there.' 



" Though wholly incredulous of the truth of the vision, 

 I sent two ' boys ' to the spot indicated, and they returned 

 bringing with them the lost case, having found it exactly 

 where the diviner said that he saw it." 



The Zulus 



THE ZULUS : Quotations from General Sir W. Butler's 

 Naboth's Vineyard, p. 263 (given in Blyden's African 

 Life and Customs, p. 43). 



" In all the sad history of South Africa few things are 

 sadder than the Zulu question. Where the Zulu came 

 (in those days), no lock or key were necessary. No man 

 who knew the Zulu not even the white colonist, whose 

 rage was largely the result of his being unable to get servile 

 labour from him could say that he had not found the 

 Zulu honest, truthful, faithful ; that the white wife and 

 child had not been entirely safe from insult or harm at 

 the hands of this black man ; or that money and property 

 were not immeasurably more secure in Zulu charge than 

 in that of Europeans or Asiatics." 



From Blyden's African Life and Customs, p. 37. 



" There are to-day hundreds of so-called civilised Africans 

 who are coming back to themselves. They have grasped 

 the principles underlying the European social and economic 

 order and reject them as not equal to their own as means 

 of making adequate provision for the normal needs of all 

 members of society both present and future from birth 

 all through life to death. They have discovered all the 



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