John Bull & co.; the great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa . the independent manners of the colo-nial or German gentlemen who act as waiters in SouthAfrican, as well as in American and Australian a sad figure they cut, those poor, emaciated, JOHN BULL & CO. 277 lanky Indians, by the side of the Zulus, who are thepersonification of health and strength ! What a limp,nerveless race ! As one looks at them, it becomes easyto understand how John Bull made the conquest ofIndia. In the out-skirts of Dur-ban you see theplaces wherethese Indians
John Bull & co.; the great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa . the independent manners of the colo-nial or German gentlemen who act as waiters in SouthAfrican, as well as in American and Australian a sad figure they cut, those poor, emaciated, JOHN BULL & CO. 277 lanky Indians, by the side of the Zulus, who are thepersonification of health and strength ! What a limp,nerveless race ! As one looks at them, it becomes easyto understand how John Bull made the conquest ofIndia. In the out-skirts of Dur-ban you see theplaces wherethese Indiansdwell, tumble-down shantieswhich the mostwretched andpoorest Con-naught peasantwould hesitateto lodge his pigsin. Outside, inthe sun, sit thesemiserable crea-tures, dirty andabject-looking;women withmens heads intheir laps search-ing among theirlords locks, monkey fashion. The children scratchtheir backs against the doorposts, while their parentsscratch their heads. Most of the animation of thesepeople comes from parasitic suggestion on the more industrious of them work on the sugar and. RAILWAY STATION, VERULAM, NATAL.[From a Phoiograph by H. S. , Nuial.\ 278 JOHN BULL& CO. tea plantations that abound in South Natal. Othersare domestics, A few Parsees, rich merchants and tradesmen of thetown, fat and flourishing, clothed in long gold-embroi-dered raiment, form a curious contrast to the poor half-clad coolies, whom you see hawking a few bananas atthe railway stations, and patronized chiefly by somechattering, merry Zulus, who are installing themselvesin high glee in one of the third-class carriages providedin this country for the colored people. CHAPTER XXXIII. The Natives of South Africa—First Disappointment—Nativesin a Natural State—Scenes of Savage Life—The Kraals—Customs—The Women—Types—Among the Kaffirs andthe Zulus—Zulus in Undress —I Buy a Ladys Costume,and Carry it ofif in my Pocket—What Strange Places VirtueHides in—The Mis
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