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CHAPTER XI. 



The Four great Divisions of the Caffer Nation — Population — Tradition 

 of the Natives — General Description of the Country — Form of 

 Government — Polygamy — Costumes — Agricultural Pursuits — 

 Description of Native Dwellings— Food — Amusements — Super- 

 stitions — Diseases — Professions — Witch Doctors. 



Caffraria extends from the Keiskamma river, which 

 separates it from the Cape Colony, to an undefined 

 line somewhere on the south side of Delagoa Bay. 

 Its extent inland is not correctly ascertained. Its 

 western boundary is supposed to be near the source 

 of the Orange River, which flows through a vast 

 extent of country into the Atlantic Ocean ; and the 

 Mapoota, which empties itself into Delagoa Bay. 



Four principal nations, originally of one family, 

 as can be proved by the genealogical tables of their 

 chieftains for sixteen generations past, inhabit this 

 country ; and although the boundaries of their re- 

 spective districts are not settled with very minute 

 accuracy, the following statements may be relied on as 

 coming near the truth. First, the Amakosa tribes, 

 whose " Umkumkani," or sovereign, is Hintza, ex- 

 tend from the colony to the mouth of the Bashee river. 

 The subordinate Chiefs of this division are the sons 

 of the late Islambia, the sons of Gaika, Pato, Kama, 

 Congo, Enou, Duchani, Botuman, and Phundis. 



" Their want of skill in computation, and their 



