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SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
" Guye yedwa ouga yeuzayoP He only can 
do it. 
" Di swele ihashe." I am in need of a horse. 
u Boy a oka buy a yena. Nykauya ninima ?" 
I will go when he returns. "When will you go ? 
" Hang a liya tshona" The sun is going 
down. 
" Inldidyo yam izele hisiziP My heart is 
full of grief. 
" JJJcu ~bonaP To see. " JJmtu wasema "Xoseni" 
A man of Kaffirland. 
" Roda, wetuP Farewell, friend. 
The laws of the Kaffirs next come before our 
notice. Of these, little is known, except as far 
as the general fundamental principles. As has 
already been observed, these are founded on a 
purely monarchial and conservative basis. The 
power of the " ukurnJcani" or king, is absolute ; 
and, in the Amazula tribes, this amounts to a 
tyranical despotism* 
Amongst the lower or frontier Kaffirs, the 
multiplicity of tribes is of comparatively modern 
date, and this has mainly arisen from the sup- 
posed importance given to certain petty chiefs 
by the Europeans, generally through ignorance. 
Amongst the Amazulus, no such distinctions 
are understood, and each petty chief is ranked, 
and employed simply as a general, under the 
one great paramount king Panda. 
