The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . liable labour supply. Taken on the whole, the Indianshave proved their value, and but little is now urged againstthem. The Indian population is under the especial care ofan official called the Protector of Indian Immigrants. It would be superfluous in these pages to do more than 17 biicfl) outline the foregoing sections of the people. It may beinteresting to state, by way of conclusion, that in 1894, thetotal deposits in the savings banks amounted to i^i55,, for so small a population, speaks for itself Thenatives
The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . liable labour supply. Taken on the whole, the Indianshave proved their value, and but little is now urged againstthem. The Indian population is under the especial care ofan official called the Protector of Indian Immigrants. It would be superfluous in these pages to do more than 17 biicfl) outline the foregoing sections of the people. It may beinteresting to state, by way of conclusion, that in 1894, thetotal deposits in the savings banks amounted to i^i55,, for so small a population, speaks for itself Thenatives claim a more detailed notice, not only because oftheir numbers, but by reason of the absorbing interest whichthey naturally possess for every European. Their quaintnessand simplicit)^, combined with their acuteness and shrewdness,is most remarkable. The student of human character will find in their goodnature, curious customs and methods of thought, a theme ofthe most profound interest. In them, he will discoverprimitive man, unaltered almost by the innovations of the. Iiij/tiim A NATIVE CHICFTAIN HOLDING HIS COURT. later centuries. Combined in the most wonderful mannerare the vices incidental to humanity, yet strange to say, bycodes of their own, with which the white man has hadnothing whatever to do, they have established beneficialregulations, the wisdom of which will be at once admitted bythe cultivated observer. 18 In the first place it is necessary to rectify a curiouslywrong impression which has got abroad with respect to theaborigines of \atal, if they may be so called. The impressionalluded to is that these natives were the original lords ofthe soil, and that the whitesare interlopers, who, b\- theiraggressiveness and land hun-ger, are pre}-ing upon thebirthright of the unsophisti-cated savage. The fact is, that whenthe whites first a rived onthe scene and e5:ablishcdthemselves, the natives werebroken, defeated, ind power-less to further oppose themight of the all con
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