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CAFFRARIA. 
struction of their gardens ; and some likewise by greater 
fluency in speech. 
In their private quarrels among themselves it is not diffi- 
cult to bring them to a reconciliation, which is generally 
effected by the interposition of friends. 
There is a rule or law> sanctioned by custom, among the 
Caffres, which falls severely upon the poor females ; viz. 
when a father dies, all his property is seized by his surviving 
brother, if he has left one ; which property is applied solely 
to the support of the male children of the family, and when 
these come of age, the uncle delivers up the property of their 
father to them — but as for the widow and fatherless daugh- 
ters, no provision is made for them. This is not very sur- 
prising, as it will be found in every country, civilized as well 
as barbarous, that men being the stronger party, and the 
makers of the laws, form them more favourably toward their 
own sex. Whatever knowledge of good, men in savage 
countries may have lost, in all countries they have retained 
the knowledge of their superiority to the other sex, and 
act accordingly. 
The Caffres have unhappily discovered a method of 
making a liquor from corn or millet, resembling gin, with 
which they frequently intoxicate themselves, and having 
spears as their constant companions, they must in such cases 
be frequently very outrageous and dangerous. 
CHAP. III. 
DRESS— SUBSISTENCE—PROPERTY— HOUSES—ANIMALS. 
THE Caffre men do not encumber themselves with much 
dress, nor do they ever dress for the sake of decency, but 
merely to protect themselves from cold ; for which purpose 
they wear a cloak made of cow-skin, which they render al- 
most as soft and pliable as cloth ; others are made of the skins 
of wild animals, and all have the hair completely taken off. 
Their colour is brown. The cloaks of the chiefs are made 
of tyger skins. When it rains at the time they are to milk 
