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everything round, except their game-pits, which are square or 

 parallelograms; but shew inaptitude for handicraft employ- 

 ments. The slave-trade is cordially hated by them ; Euro- 

 peans inspire them with fear. They have a great objection to 

 praying and preaching, but dance and hunt with much zeal. 



It is much disputed as to whether these 

 or Caffi-es. ' "magnificent savages" are negroes, or not. The 

 following is Dr Pritchard's statement of the 

 case, as well as his own conclusion about it : u The difference 

 of physical characters between the Kafirs, meaning the Ama- 

 kosah, and the Negroes known to us in Western Africa, are 

 so great as to have appeared to many travellers to be distinc- 

 tive of separate races, and of varieties of the human species, 

 very remote from each other. The Kafirs have been thought 

 by intelligent and accurate observers, to resemble the Arabs 

 more than the natives of intertropical Africa. The conclusion 

 to which we are led by the most careful researches into their 

 history is, that nothing in their physical or moral qualities 

 confirms the hypothesis of an Asiatic origin. They are a 

 genuine African race, and, as it appears highly probable, only 

 a branch of one widely-extended race, to which all the Negro 

 nations of the empire of Kongo belong, as well as many tribes 

 both on the western and eastern side of Southern Africa 1 ." 



The Kafirs form one tribe of the great Bechuana family ; 

 their national characteristics are well-known to our cost, being 

 warlike and enterprising. Dr Vanderkemp commenced the 

 first mission among them in 1799. A new mission was com- 

 menced by Mr Williams in 1816. 



These people have spread themselves widely over the 

 eastern coast, various branches receiving different names, such 

 as Caffre and Zoolus; they are called Landeens on the banks 

 of the Zambesi. 



Dr Livingstone, at page 201, Travels, says: 



u The Caffres are divided by themselves into various sub- 



1 Researches into ike Physical History of Mankind, Vol. n. p. 344. 



