. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. KAFFIR WOMAN AND CHILD. I 648 THE JJSHABJTANTS OF AFRICA. Lakes Nyassa and Tanganyika have been described by Livingstone,. appear f to be another branch of Chakas Zulus. Among all these peoples THE KAFFIRS. 649 military despotism is the prevailing plienomeiion, Matabele society,says Mr. Mackenzie, may be said to exist for tlie chief. His claims aresupreme and unquestioned. To
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. KAFFIR WOMAN AND CHILD. I 648 THE JJSHABJTANTS OF AFRICA. Lakes Nyassa and Tanganyika have been described by Livingstone,. appear f to be another branch of Chakas Zulus. Among all these peoples THE KAFFIRS. 649 military despotism is the prevailing plienomeiion, Matabele society,says Mr. Mackenzie, may be said to exist for tlie chief. His claims aresupreme and unquestioned. To him belongs every person and every-thing in the country. Amatongaland is another of these Zulu king-doms north of Zululand, and extending to Delagoa Bay. It has a queenand many subordinate chiefs. Swaziland is yet another adjacent Zulukingdom. Devoting a short space now to the habits and customs of some of theseveral types of Kaffirs, we must note the kraal as the typical village,with its cattle pen in the centre, surrounded by a rampart of The Kaffirbushes, and its several rows of conical dwellings, made of poles ^ interlaced wickerwork, plastered with clay or cowdung, and thatchedwith straw. They do not exceed seven feet high, and vary from aboutten to twenty feet in diameter, in which it may be that thirty persons areacco
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