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SOUTH AFRICAN CATTLE, 
WITH CAFFRARIAN FAMILY ON A JOURNEY. 
PLATE XXV. ] 
This interesting Plate is thus described in Da- 
niel’s African Scenery : — 
“ The Caffres who dwell upon the eastern coast of 
South Africa are a race of people very superior to 
what they have usually been considered, both with 
regard to their physical and moral character. If 
taken in the mass, it may be questioned if any nation 
can produce so great a proportion of tall elegant 
figures as appear among the CaflFres. Though stron-j- 
and active in a great degree, they eat very little ani- 
mal food, but subsist chiefly on milk in a curdled 
state, and a few wild vegetables and roots. The 
shape of the head and the features of the counte- 
nance approach much nearer to inhabitants of the 
north than either the Hottentot or the Negro, and 
were it not for their colour, which is from black to 
bronze, even Europeans might pronounce them a 
very handsome race of men. Their weapons for war 
and for hunting are the hassagai and the kerie. The 
former is an iron spear fitted to a tapering shaft. 
