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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

CHAPTER 10
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The Matebele, or Makonkobi--the Caffre family living on the eastern side of the country; 2d.

The Bakoni, or Basuto; and, 3d.

The Bakalahari, or Bechuanas, living in the central parts, which includes all those tribes living in or adjacent to the great Kalahari Desert.
1st.

The Caffres are divided by themselves into various subdivisions, as Amakosa, Amapanda, and other well-known titles.

They consider the name Caffre as an insulting epithet.
The Zulus of Natal belong to the same family, and they are as famed for their honesty as their brethren who live adjacent to our colonial frontier are renowned for cattle-lifting.


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