About twelve years ago, our ship was stationed at the Cape, and I was sent with a party of blue jackets into the interior, as far as Fort Wiltshire, on the Krieskamma, the most remote point of the British possessions in South Africa.

There we dispersed a cloud of them that had been for weeks living upon other people's property.

They are tall, wiry fellows, as hardy as a pine tree, and as daring as buccaneers.

The chief of the _kraals_, or huts, wear leopard or panther skins, and profess to have the power of causing rain to fall, besides an endless number of other miraculous attributes.
Amongst them, a wife of the ordinary class costs eight head of cattle, but the price of a young lady of the higher ranks runs as high as twenty cows.

When a Kafir is suspected of a crime, his tongue is touched seven times with hot iron, and if it is not burnt he is declared innocent." "I am afraid," said Jack, "if they were all subjected to that test, they would be found to be a very bad lot.