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tion, those ornaments had been severed from their 
coats. 
The Caffres are entirely black, but bear no trace 
of the negro features. In the form of their skull 
and face they differ little from the most perfect 
Europeans. Mr Barrow saw few traces of agricul- 
tural industry. This was explained by the king to 
arise from the constant state of warfare in which 
the nation had for some years been engaged. Pas- 
turage., however, is their chief and favourite occu- 
pation. The game being now nearly exhausted, 
there is no longer room for hunting, which other- 
wise might often be preferred. Their cattle are 
under the most perfect command ; a slight whistle, 
differently modified, causes a large herd either to 
go out to graze, or to come to be milked. They 
subsist chiefly on the milk ; it is only on great oc- 
casions of festival that a cow is killed. It is re- 
markable, however, although they live on a coast 
swarming with fish, that they make no use of that 
food, and do not possess a boat or canoe of any de- 
scription. They are ingenious in several arts. 
Though they cannot smelt iron, yet, with one stone 
serving for a hammer, and the other for an anvil, 
they fashion it into almost any required shape. 
They prepare calf skins also very skilfully for dress, 
their bodkin being of polished iron, and their thread 
the muscular fibres of wild animals* Marriage is 
invariably conducted by sale, an ox or two cows 
