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know what heathen savagism in South Africa really is, should 

 read that chapter. 



They waged a doubtful warfare with Sebituane, who de- 

 feated and crippled them, driving them from the Zambesi. 



We now confine our attention to those tribes visited by 

 Dr Livingstone, during his two great journeys, who do not 

 belong to the Bechuana variety. In doing this we go back to 

 Lake Ngami. 



The Accounts of these can be read in many books, 



Bushmen. s i nce they spread over regions which have been 

 visited by other travellers. These people are the only real 

 Nomads of South Africa, residing in the desert from choice. 

 They are aborigines of this portion of the continent; subsist 

 on game, and have an intense love of liberty; but are mise- 

 rably degraded. 



The Ba- These curious people reside on the banks of 



k.oba, or Ba, y" the Zouga. Their language shews their afn- 



eige • the . 



South African ™ty to tne tribes in the North. They call 

 Quakers. themselves "Bayeige," i.e. "men." The Be- 



chuanas call them " Bakoba," i. e. " slaves." They make 

 fishing-nets knotted just like ours ! In digging pairs of 

 wedge-like pitfalls wherein to entrap game they evince much 

 ingenuity : as also dexterity in spearing fish. 



Hear our traveller's account of them as men of peace, 

 given in the letter dated Tete : " They live on the reedy islets 

 of the Zouga, cultivate gardens, rear goats, fish and hunt 

 alternately, and are generally possessed of considerable mus- 

 cular development. Wherever you meet them they are 

 always the same. They are the Quakers of the body politic 

 in Africa. They never fought with' any one, but invariably 

 submitted to whoever conquered the lands adjacent to their 

 rivers. They say their progenitors made bows of the castor- 

 oil plant, and they broke; ' therefore (!) they resolved never 

 to fight any more.' They never acquire much property, for 

 every one turns aside into their villages to eat what he can 



