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tallest and stateliest of any that dwell upon the earth. 

 Dillon, headstrong as usual, and I, full of longing, 

 would soon have been careering through the forest, 

 with no greater thoughts in our heads, than that we 

 had nought to do but to go forth and kill, however 

 Umpiqua was of a different opinion and soon made 

 us listen to his plans. 



There is a wonderful amount of dignity in pure 

 bred Zulus, of course they differ much in appear- 

 ance, but there is the stamp of breeding upon all. 

 It is this unquestionably that causes them to be 

 listened to, and their counsel accepted, on such an 

 occasion as the present. In spite of what our 

 cousins across the Atlantic may say, there was a 

 good deal of these very characteristics to be found 

 among the American Indians that inhabited the 

 western plains. The latter were, however, a much 

 more taciturn people, possibly from their love ot 

 passing long periods of their lives in absolute soli- 

 tude ; the Zulu, on the other hand, is strictly gre- 

 garious and monarchical, causes that ever make him 

 more sociable. I do not wish it for a moment to be 

 supposed that I desire to desert my old love for the 

 new — for in early life I spent a long period among 

 the red-men and liked them well enough, but when 

 I have said this I have said all — but the two races are 

 diverse in character, for what the former lacks, is to 

 an eminent degree developed in the child of Africa. 

 Zulus can be and are elevated by association with 



