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SOUTH AFRICAN CATTLE, 



WITH CAFFRARIAN FAMILY ON A JOURNEY. 



PLATE XXV. 



THIS interesting Plate is thus described in Da- 

 niel's African Scenery : 



" The Caffres who dwell upon the eastern coast of 

 South Africa are a race of people very superior to 

 what they have usually been considered, both with 

 regard to their physical and moral character. If 

 taken in the mass, it may be questioned if any nation 

 can produce so great a proportion of tall elegant 

 figures as appear among the Caffres. Though strong 

 and active in a great degree, they eat very little ani- 

 mal food, but subsist chiefly on milk in a curdled 

 state, and a few wild vegetables and roots. The 

 shape of the head and the features of the counte- 

 nance approach much nearer to inhabitants of the 

 north than either the Hottentot or the Negro, and 

 were it not for their colour, which is from black to 

 bronze, even Europeans might pronounce them a 

 very handsome race of men. Their weapons for war 

 and for hunting are the hassagai and the kerie. The 

 former is an iron spear fitted to a tapering shaft, 



