. The Popular science monthly . Fig. 7. A Krall in Zululand. garden, where the collection of Encephalartos is the largest and finestin the world, but he accompanied me into the field and sent a Zulufrom the garden to be my guide and factotum during my stay inZululand. There are only two genera of cycads in Africa, Encephalarios andStangeria, and they are found only in South Africa. I found bothgenera in Zululand and secured an abundance of material for furtherstudy. The Zulus are a superior race, both physically and mentally, thanksto the practical eugenics of the good old days before the Engl
. The Popular science monthly . Fig. 7. A Krall in Zululand. garden, where the collection of Encephalartos is the largest and finestin the world, but he accompanied me into the field and sent a Zulufrom the garden to be my guide and factotum during my stay inZululand. There are only two genera of cycads in Africa, Encephalarios andStangeria, and they are found only in South Africa. I found bothgenera in Zululand and secured an abundance of material for furtherstudy. The Zulus are a superior race, both physically and mentally, thanksto the practical eugenics of the good old days before the English came,when deformed or sickly babies were promptly killed, and thus pre-vented from propagating their failings. 43° THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. Fig. 8. Euphorbia tetragona, near Cathcaet, South Africa. The young man must work hard to get his first wife, for wives costabout $500 apiece. Then, with a helpmeet, it is easier to get thesecond wife, and a third wife comes still more easily. There is noreason why a man with three wives should work any more, and so lifebecomes easy for him. As he gets older, he has daughters to sell, andcan buy more wives. The average well-to-do Zulu has from half adozen to a score of wives and it is not unusual for a chief to have severalhundred. A man with only one wife has about the same standing asa slaveholder with only one slave had in the south before the Civil War,and, consequently, the earlier wives are eager to work hard to elevate thestanding of the family. The whole family lives together in a collectionof huts, called a krall (Fig. 7), each wife having a hut of her own, andthe polygamous husband boarding around. You can tell the numberof wives in a family by counting the houses in a krall
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