CHAPTEE IX. 
THE KAEEIE LANGUAGE, LAWS, SUPERSTITIONS, TEADITIONS? 
TEACES OF EELIGION, SACEIFICE, PEOPHETS, MOSAIC NAMES 
AND CUSTOMS, PATEIAECHAL HABITS, ISHMAELITISH USAGES, 
CIECUMCISION, AND INPEEENCES TO EE DEAWN EEOM THE 
CONNECTION BETWEEN THEM AND SCEIPTUEE INPOEM ATION . 
Amongst barbarous tribes no language is to be 
found superior to the Kaffir, in precision of ex- 
pression, order, regularity, and system. It is 
beautifully soft and melodious in sound, and 
more resembles the modern Italian, in this re- 
spect, than any other known. It is usually 
spoken very slowly by the natives ; their enun- 
ciation being distinct, and their musical and 
pleasing voices being modulated by the use of 
well-timed cadences and pauses. 
It is also worthy of remark, that, as an in- 
variable rule, this language is correctly spoken 
by every class of the community ; which is per- 
haps not the case with any of our European 
tongues. As a general rule, a Kaffir will never 
be heard using an ungrammatical expression ; 
and, not only so; but they always connect to- 
gether their words and sentences in such a man- 
ner, as to preserve the proper system of allitera- 
tion, throughout the same proposition. 
