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ever missed. Our wagons, too, containing a wonderful 
medley, were left under tlie care of our drivers, sur- 
rounded by Caffre villages, and on our return we found 
everything exactly as we liad left it; and yet there was 
liquor, sugar, powder, lead, blankets, and all that a Caffre 
considers worth having. Yet, on the other hand, they 
were an ungrateful, unwilling, and obstinate lot of fellows, 
glad enough to get anything given them, but much 
aggrieved and ready to grumble immediately they were 
told to do anything that they did not consider contained in 
their agreement. They were particularly decent in their 
habits, whether amongst themselves or with a white man; 
they were fairly clean, for they repeatedly bathed in the 
river, and yet sometimes the sight of what they ate would 
nearly make me sick. Again, no one could endure more 
hunger, or walk a greater distance with less nourishment, 
than a Caffre; but yet they seemed so unwilling and 
almost unable to do any really hard work. When they 
go out to earn some money, say on a farm, they generally 
work for six months only at a time, and then return home, 
where they lie about the kraal while their wives do all the 
labour, tilling and planting the ground, cutting wood, 
drawing water, and in fact are the slaves of the man their 
master and husband; and consequently the more wives a 
man can purchase, the richer and more comfortable in 
circumstances he grows. They are terribly afraid of 
corporal chastisement ; and sometimes a white man, with a 
quick temper and given to whack them, cannot induce a 
Caffre for any wages to work for him. Amongst them- 
selves they never use their fists in a quarrel, which I 
thought a bad sign; but they will shout and rage at one 
another upon a difference of opinion in a most vehement 
manner, and if the quarrel grows beyond words, which is 
seldom the case, they probably take to a knife or an 
assegais. They do not appear to have any religion, or to 
