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inhospitable surface. ‘The natives partake of the characters 
of the region they occupy, while the Caffer Proper is a 
daring savagé, warlike by disposition, imposing in appear- 
ance, and independent in character. The Tambookie, 
or Amaytymbe, is mild even to timidity: more frail in 
person, and cowardly almost to imbecility in danger, he is 
assailed by the Bushman from the north, by his brother 
Caffer on the south, by the marauding and predatory tribes 
from the east, and maintains an uncertain tenure of his 
native territory: he is kept constantly in a state of almost 
pauperism; Famine frequently stalks with his gaunt form 
through the kraals of his people; and yet the Tambookie, 
unlike the Caffer, seldom if ever crosses the colonial bound- 
ary to abstract any of the numerous herds which feed within 
his very sight; but when pressed by hunger or alarmed by 
danger, he comes in peace, tells his woe-begone tale to the 
colonist, is fed, advised, and instructed, and returns the 
friend of the white man. Such has been the state of the 
relations between our regular colonists and this tribe for a 
very long period ; while that of the southern neighbourhood, 
civilized and savage, has been one of mutual encroachment 
and sanguinary contest. 
I have pointed out the principal features of the t two fore- 
going divisions of the country separately, because occupied 
by two great. political communities,—the Amakose and 
Amaytymbez people. As there are, beyond those to the 
frontiers of the Zulo power, no longer any considerable so- 
‘cieties of men bound nationally together, like the before-men- 
tioned people, but a mere succession of numerous but small 
and broken hordes, the wreck of former populous tribes sub- 
dued by the Zulo tyrant and conqueror, Chaka,’ and other 
depredators upon a lesser scale, set into motion by his 
