10 H.C. Schunke.—The Transkeian Territories: [Jan. 28, 
knowledge goes, peculiar to Kaffraria alone, and the Fauna is in 
this respect similar to that of the frontier districts and Natal. 
At one time the whole of Kaffraria Proper was in possession of 
Hottentots and Bushmen tribes. It was about the time when the 
Dutch first founded the settlement in Table Bay that other and 
more powerful native tribes of a darker hue living to the north-east 
were driven from their original homes by unknown events and 
wandered south-westwards, gradually taking possession of a great 
part of the country of the Hottentots, leaving the higher and colder 
parts to the Bushmen. it would take too long to follow the move- 
ments of the different tribes even within the last generation. 
The natives in Kaffraria Proper belong to-day chiefly to the Bantu 
family. The Hottentots and Bushmen still surviving are in such 
insignificant numbers that we need hardly mention them now. The 
Bantu are represented by the Xosa (consisting of Gaika, Gealeka, 
Ndhlambe and Bomvana), Tembu, Pondomise, Pondo, Baca and 
Xesibe, Basuto Immigrants and Fingoes, consisting of numerous 
broken-up tribes. The population of natives may be roughly put 
down at over half a million, or at thirty to the square mile. Their 
distribution over the country is of varying density and is, especially 
where the disturbance and interference by the white man have 
been least, remarkably dependent on the configuration and geological 
formation of the country, which have determined the condition of 
climate, soil and vegetation. Especially in Pondoland this close 
relation is remarkably apparent. Although in Pondoland the average 
density of population is fifty to the square mile, there are large tracts 
of country almost entirely bare of inhabitants, whereas there are 
other parts which have a population of fully 100 to the square mile. 
The mightiest of native nations was at one time that of the 
Gealeka ; the tribe is now broken up, and together with Gaikas 
from over the Kei its members are scattered over the whole 
‘coast country from the Kei to Natal. The Chief Kreli, who 
lives in Bomvanaland, has only 500 to 600 trusty followers with 
‘him at the present day. The Bomvana live along the coast between 
the Bashee and Umtata Rivers. The Pondo, divided into two sections, 
occupy the coast country from the Umtata River to Natal. Under the 
Zuurbergen and adjoining the Pondo country, proceeding from north- 
east to south-east as far as Umtata, we have the Xesibe, the Baca, 
and the Pondomise. Another section of the Baca tribe is found in the 
Umzimkulu district near the Natal border. From the Umtata River 
