428 Kaffir Promise and Capability. 



occasionally some gifted individual, like the late Sir C. -Napier, 

 in Scinde, has been of wonderful use. Perhaps the industrial 

 development of India may lead the natives to do their part 

 towards reforming themselves. No amount of European 

 benevolence can be a substitute for self-action, and the con- 

 servatism of Eastern nations can only be overthrown by 

 movements that develop new interests and create new wants. 



KAFFIR PROMISE AND CAPABILITY. 



BY DR. MANN, P.R.A.S., P.R.G.S., P.E.S.L., SUPERINTENDENT 

 OP EDUCATION IN NATAL. 



(With a Tinted Plate.) 



In a recent number of the Intellectual Observer an allusion 

 was made to the curious fact that there is a kind of education 

 going on even among the wild Kaffirs, in consequence of the 

 lives of gossip and of incessant talk that the men lead ; and 

 that this becomes at once apparent when the features of the 

 young men are compared with the features of the old men, the 

 countenances of the young men being commonly wild, furtive, 

 and unintelligent, and the countenances of the old men being 

 as commonly gentle, astute, and sagacious. This fact is illus- 

 trated in the plate of Types of Zulu Kaffirs that accompanies 

 the present number. Figure 3 is the portrait of a young man 

 of Ngoza's people, taken by photography at the chiefs kraal, 

 near the base of Table mountain, within sixteen miles of the 

 city of Maritzburg ; and Figure 4 is the portrait of Umshiyane, 

 an old man of the same clan, taken by photography at Maritz- 

 burg. Figure 3 may be deemed a fair type of the young wild 

 Kaffir of Natal, and Umshiyane is a fair specimen of what the 

 young wild Kaffirs of Natal become after they have gossipped 

 together for half a century. 



Figures 1 and 2 of this same plate illustrate another scarcely 

 less interesting fact in connection with Kaffir features, 

 namely, that there are two very opposite types occasionally 

 developed with great distinctness even in the same families — 

 the one having the flat nose, projecting jaw, thick lips, and 

 low cerebral development of the pure negro race ; and the 

 other having the small jaw, sharp features, prominent nose, 

 and full capacious foreheads, that must be referred to some 

 higher form of organization. It is not possible to have aiiy 

 extended acquaintance with the Kaffirs of Natal, without feel- 

 ing that they have much in them that is common to themselves 

 and to the negro. But it is equally apparent that they have 



