Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 8, 2025
This was no easy task to accomplish, for one would have to pass through a part of the Transvaal where there was a great scarcity of water it was little better than a desert and where in some places the Kaffirs were unfriendly. In other words, one would have to go through the Boschveldt.
Waking up towards evening, he found that his horse had gone, and at once jumped to the conclusion that it had been stolen by Kaffirs, although in truth the animal had but strolled over a ridge in search of grass.
Moreover, the country beyond the mountains was said to be very bare of game and also of Kaffirs, so that food might be lacking. On the other hand, if we kept to the east of the mountains the veld through which we must pass was thickly populated, which meant that in all probability we could buy grain.
The streets were littered with the belongings of the inhabitants. Two or three houses had been burned. A dead horse lay in the road, his four legs sticking stiffly up in the air, his belly swollen. The whole place had evidently been ransacked and plundered by the Boers and the Kaffirs.
But now the English were beginning to buy up the maize at £1 a sack. He could still hold out for a few months more, as food could be obtained from the Kaffirs. There was, it could not be denied, a tendency to mutiny amongst the Kaffirs, but he did not think that this need cause any anxiety. He believed that he would be able to carry on operations until the end of the winter.
A million pounds of compensation would be paid to the burghers a most remarkable example of a war indemnity being paid by the victors. Loans were promised to the farmers to restart them in business, and a pledge was made that farms should not be taxed. The Kaffirs were not to have the franchise, but were to have the protection of law. Such were the generous terms offered by the British Government.
The domestication of animals is usually in women’s hands. They are also the primitive architects; the hut, in widely different parts of the world among Kaffirs, Fuegians, Polynesians, Kamtschatdals is built by women. We have seen that the communal houses of the American Indians are mainly erected by the women. Women were frequently, though not always, the primitive doctors.
Kaffirs and Zulus, in the extreme south, are good smiths, and the latter melt copper and tin together and draw wire from it, according to Kranz . West of the Great Lakes, Stanley found wonderful examples of smith work: figures worked out of brass and much work in copper. Cameron saw vases made near Lake Tanganyika which reminded him of the amphorae in the Villa of Diomedes, Pompeii.
They had lost, too, a great many of their best fighting men in the battles with the Kaffirs, but no doubt when Osman Digma announced that the favourable time had arrived, all would again join him in order to have their share of the plunder of Suakim.
Down this valley Suzanne rode, the Hottentot with the basket on his head trotting by her side, till turning the corner she came upon a scene which she had very little expected. In one part of the open space beyond her, herded by some Kaffirs, were a number of cattle, sheep and goats.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking