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strict, and the breach of them is summarily 
punished. If a demand made for hospitality 
be rejected by a Kaffir, and complaint of his 
refusal be made to the u inkose inkulu" of the 
tribes to which he belongs; a court of the u amcb- 
pakati" is instantly assembled, the case is tried, 
and if found guilty, the captain of that "kraal" 
or village is at once fined in cattle. A portion 
of the mulct goes, as is generally the case, to 
the chief, and the remainder is given to the 
person who demanded the hospitality as the 
party aggrieved. 
We here subjoin a sketch of the ethnology 
of the Amazulu tribes of Natal, as given by 
Mr. Fynn, the oldest English resident in Kaffir- 
land, and the best informed with respect to 
Kaffir law and customs. 
"As the native tribes are now very numerous 
— in explaining the government of a tribe, I 
shall confine myself chiefly to the mode in which 
affairs were conducted in the Zulu nation during 
the reign of Chaka — showing what was the 
practice of the most powerful tribe ever known 
to have existed ; it will therefore be understood, 
that if the same customs do not now prevail 
among the smaller tribes, it is simply because 
their organization is less complete. 
"The followers of a Chief, while in attend- 
ance upon him at his kraal, are generally de- 
