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he did not retaliate as many other of the chiefs did; and during the last war he gave up himself and family it s 
hostages to the British Government. 1 saw him, together with his wives and family, occupying a small hut at p, M . t 
Elizabeth, the English settlement at Algoa Bay. It was a poor, mean hut, encircled by Fingo huts of larger size 
It was an ignominious position, too, to he surrounded by the very people the AmakoseS looked upon as dogs_the 
same Fitigoes who had slain his chiefs in battle, and are now the white man’s serfs. When 1 took his portrait, he 
appeared dejected and melancholy. Poor old man! in his tattered kaross, it was difficult to recognise the son of 
Gaika, who reigned over the whole land, from the Fish River to the Kei. His principal wife, Nox’lena, is the mother 
of Kawi, Macomo’s eldest son: she is of the light-coloured Tambooki blood, of noble descent, mild in her manner, 
and, like all Kafir women, loves her pipe. 
Sandilli, the Atnagaika chief, was the principal leader of the Frontier tribes during the late Kafir war. The history 
of this remarkable man is too well known to all in any way connected with the events that have taken place on the 
Frontier during the war to require its repetition here. Sandilli is a young man, born of the royal Tambooki blood; hr 
is of a lighter colour than many of the Kafirs, and may be called handsome from the regularity of his features and his 
commanding figure. Ilis character is remarkable for cunning and adroitness; but when in the presence of Europeans he 
wears a stolid expression of countenance, as though be would defy scrutiny. His left leg is withered, which causes him 
to walk lame. 
The Amakosa females are many of them women of noble bearing and graceful manners. Their costume differs 
greatly from that of the Auiazulu and Amaponda, consisting of garments much more ample, formed of carefully-dressed 
skins, and curiously decorated with steel chains and brass bell-buttons. The leather cloak, worn by the Amakosa women 
on all festive occasions, has usually a broad belt of leather, about eight inches wide, extending all down the back, and 
separated from the dress over which it falls; this is thickly studded with brass buttons, and the shell of a small land- 
tortoise, containing a preparation of herbs, as a supposed charm against witchcraft, is suspended from it by a piece of 
coiled wire. I have only observed these tortoises amongst the women of this tribe and the Fingoes, who adopt the 
same style of dress and similar customs to their neighbours the Amakosa Kafirs. 
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