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Identifier: africa00johnrich (find matches)
Title: Africa
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Africa -- Description and travel Africa -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London : Edward Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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f Africa. According to Mr. Palgrave,1 Damaraland is peopled byabout 85,000 Ova-Herero or Cattle Damaras, as they werecalled by the Naruaquas when they first came into thecountry from the east, probably from the Zambesi region,about 150 years ago; by about 30,000 Houquain orBerg-Damaras, a black and negro-like people, supposed tobe the aborigines of the country, who were early enslavedby the IsTamaquas, and have adopted their language; andby about 3000 Bushmen, a few Namaquas and Baastards,and about 150 Europeans, not including Boers. Northof Damaraland a number of black tribes, resembling theKafirs and Damaras in feature, and classed together as theOvampos, occupy the exceedingly fertile tract of countrywhich lies south of the Cunene river, between 14° and 18°E. long. Each of their tribes has its own hereditary chief,and they are moderately rich in cattle. 1 Report of a Government Mission to Damaraland and Great Namaqua-land in 1876. By W. Coates Palgrave. Cape Town, September 1877.
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THE SOUTH AFRICAN RACES. 447 CHAPTER XXV. THE SOUTH AFRICAN RACES. 1. The Bantu Family. South Africa in its widest extent is peopled by twogreat and perfectly distinct indigenous races—the Kafirsand the Hottentots. The affinity of the Kafir tribes,ethnographically including the Kafirs proper and thepeople of Congo, is based upon the various idioms spokenby them, the direct representatives of a common but nowextinct mother tongue. This aggregate of languages isnow conventionally known as the A-bantu, or, morecorrectly, the Bantu linguistic system. The morecommon term Kafir, from the Arabic Kafir = infidel,really represents but a small section of this great family,and behig otherwise a term of reproach imposed uponthem by strangers, is of course unknown to the peoplethemselves. All the Bantu tribes are distinguished bv a dark skinand woolly hair, which varies much in length and quality,but is never sleek or straight; the complexion of indi-viduals also differs greatly, from the deepes

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