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divisions, as Amakosa, Amapanda, and other well-known titles. 

 They consider the name Caffre as an insulting epithet. 



" The Zulus of Natal belong to the same family, and they 

 are as famed for their honesty, as their brethren who live ad- 

 jacent to our colonial frontier are renowned for cattle-lifting. 

 The Recorder of Natal declared of them, that history does not 

 present another instance in which so much security for life and 

 property has been enjoyed, as has been experienced during the 

 whole period of English occupation by ten thousand colonists 

 in the midst of one hundred thousand Zulus. 



" The Matebele of Mosilikatse, living a short distance 

 south of the Zambesi, and other tribes living a little south 

 of Tere and Senna, are members of this same family. They 

 are not known beyond the Zambesi river. This was the limit 

 of the Bechuana progress too, until Sebituane pushed his con- 

 quests farther." 



He gives the following character of them, as a race : " The 

 Caffres or Zulus, are tall, muscular, and well made ; they are 

 shrewd, energetic and brave; altogether they merit the cha- 

 racter given them by military authorities, of being " magnifi- 

 cent savages." Their splendid physical development and form 

 of skull show that, but for the black skin and woolly hair, 

 they would take rank among the foremost Europeans l ." 



Our traveller says that the "Kafir wars are known and 

 felt more in England than in Africa." In the letter dated 

 Tete, he speaks of the confusion introduced by the indiscri- 

 minate use of the word " Caffre." " I never can repress a 

 smile when Boers or Englishmen speak of the more abject of 

 the Bechuanas as * Caffres.' The real Caffres or Zulu race are 

 those who have banged about the English soldier so uncere- 

 moniously, and are as remarkable as New Zealanders for 

 suffering no nonsense from either white or brown. This differ- 

 ence in national character explains at a glance why the tide 



1 Travels, p. 95. 



