SOUTHERN AFRICA. n; 
lopes and other game, with a weapon called the Haflagai, which 
is ufed alfo in battle. 
T obferved, in the former volume, that the Kaffers were not 
the aborigines of the fouthern angle of Africa ; that they might, 
perhaps, derive their origin from fome of thofe wandering tribes 
of Arabs known by the name of Bediilns. I am more than 
ever convinced they are of Arabic origin. Their paftoral habits 
and manners, their kind and friendly reception to ftrangers, 
their tent-fhaped houfes, the remains of Iflamifm difcoverable 
in one of its ftrongeft features, the circumcifion of male chil- 
dren, univerfally pradifed among the Kaffer hordes, all denote 
their affinity to the Beduin tribes. Their countenance alfo is 
Arabic ; the colour only differs, wliich in fome tribes varies 
from deep bronze to jet black, but mofl: generally the latter is 
the prevailing colour. Nor can I fuppofe they owe this colour 
to their connexion with thofe blacks which are ufually called Ne- 
groes, as they have no refemblance, in any part of the body, 
to the peculiar conformation of this race of human beings. To 
the Ethiopeans or Abyffinians they have a much clofer re- 
femblance. 
The public will Ihortly have an opportunity of forming a 
better judgment, than by any defcription I can convey, of the 
Kaffer countenance and figure, from the accurate pencil of Mr. 
S. Daniell, who accompanied the above-mentioned commiffion- 
ers, and who is preparing for publication a fet of valuable prints, 
which are meant to defcribe the charadler and coflume of the 
various tribes of natives that environ the Cape fettlement, toge- 
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