SOUTH AFRICA. 



The country is eminently a black man's land, 

 except as regards its mineral resources, as here the 

 Kaffirs can in many situations, and without 

 irrigation, raise the scanty crops of maize, millet, 

 and, pumpkins upon which they contrive to live 

 and thrive ; and, living as they do under chiefs 

 who administer their traditional semi-criminal 

 laws, they are enabled to mitigate to a great 

 extent the evils of indifferent pasturage by the 

 frequent shifting of their flocks and herds, which 

 seems, indeed, to be indispensable to the best 

 attainable success in African stock-breeding 

 operations. 



Each white farmer in the country, of course, lives 

 on his own property, and is thus debarred from 

 the advantages the Kaffirs enjoy under their own 

 social system, which suits them well, as they are 

 by no means so addicted to litigation and 

 quarrelling as their white Christian co-inhabitants. 

 Of course Kaffirs indulge more or less in tribal 

 warfare, which, however, is generally of a very 

 bloodless character (except when Zulus are con- 

 cerned), and each man in his own tribe lives 

 peacefully with his fellows. In spite of heathenism 

 and polygamy, I have never witnessed in their 



