kalifahs

Updated: May 8, 2025

I put down what seems new and amusing to me at the moment, but by the time it reaches you, it will seem very dull and commonplace. The 'revival' mania has broken out rather violently in some places; the infection was brought from St. Helena, I am told. At Capetown, old Abdool Jemaalee told me that English Christians were getting more like Malays, and had begun to hold 'Kalifahs' at Simon's Bay.

Lady Lucie Duff Gordon - Letters from the Cape