PKEFACE. 



NEARLY every person with whom I have con- 

 versed since my return from South Africa, has 

 appeared to take great interest in the Kaffirs, 

 the wild animals, and other inhabitants of that 

 country. 



I am not vain enough to suppose that my 

 friends have merely pretended this interest for 

 the sole object of allowing me an opportunity 

 of talking, and have thereby deluded me into a 

 belief of affording amusement. But I really 

 think that the opinions which they have expressed 

 are genuine, and that perhaps the same wish 

 for information on the subject of the Kaffirs, or 

 the wild beasts of the Cape, may be more widely 



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