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Identifier: uncivilizedraces01wood (find matches)
Title: The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. Wood... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, John George, 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages
Publisher: J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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Taking an assagai or two with him, and perhaps a short stick with a knob at the...
(1.) YOUNG KAFFIR ARMED. (See page 20.)

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(2.) KAFFIR POSTMAN. (See page 20.)

(21)

A KAFFIR MESSENGER. 23

...end, called a “kerry,” he will start off at
a slinging sort of mixture between a run and
a trot, and will hold this pace almost with-
out cessation. As to provision for the
journey, he need not trouble himself about
it, for he is sure to fall in with some hut,
or perhaps a village, and is equally sure of
obtaining both food and shelter. He steers
his course almost as if by intuition, regard-
less of beaten tracks, and arrives at his
destination with the same mysterious cer-
tainty that characterizes the migration of
the swallow.
It is not so easy to address a letter in
Africa as in England, and it is equally diffi-
cult to give directions for finding any part-
icular house or village. If a chief should
be on a visit, and ask his host to return
the call, he simply tells him to go so many
days in such a direction, and then turn for
half a day in another direction, and so on.
However, the Kaffir is quite satisfied with
such indications, and is sure to attain his
point.

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