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those ornaments had been severed from their 
coats. 
The KafFres 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 agri- 
cultural industry. This was explained by the 
king to arise from the constant state of warfare 
in which the nation had for some years been en- 
gaged. Pasturage, however, is their chief and 
favourite occupation. The game being now nearly 
exhausted, there is no longer room for hunting, 
which otherwise 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 occasions of festival that a cow is 
killed. It is remarkable, 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 description. 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 inta 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 
