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Before a girl is married she is not allowed to work hard, or over-exert herself, as this would lessen her value in the matrimonial market ; but after marriage, she must hoe the ground and plant corn and fetch wood and water and cook, and perform such other labor as their customs di

Sympathy for the natives is thrown away; they are so happy and contented that you would be more inclined to envy them; they have all their needs require and to spare; they live with great simplicity; they are burdened with no more clothing than a mucha, which encircles the loins; their bed consists of a mat laid on the hard floor, with a piece of wood for a pillow, and a blanket or skin to cover them; their diet is entirely a vegetable one. Meat is a rare treat to them, and they can consume an enormous quantity of it; their habits are cleanly-hence, I suppose, the reason that sickness or disease is almost unknown among them; the interiors of their huts are generally neat and orderly; after eating their invariable custom is to rinse their teeth with a little clean water; their teeth are mostly dazzling white, and seldom or never decay. Polygamy is practiced by all the native.tribes; they generally buy a woman, subject to her consent, paying to her father the price in cows.

r in one house, or close together, and jealousy and bickering are unheard of. If a young man feels inclined to marry-which they usually do at the ages of sixteen, seventeen and eighteen years-he does not consult his purse, for he can do so without a cent, for the young couple can live with the parents of one or th

The British government also created new policies for the colony, including the use of English over Dutch and the abolition of slavery in the Cape Colony.

Boers would not have been concerned with displacing the native African people, as they would have viewed it as ‘bringing civilization to an uncivilized land’.

Gold was discovered in Transvaal in 1886

appeared they shot the cattle of the Dutch settlers. The result was that the Dutch treated them rather severely, shooting then down like dogs. In this way thousands of Bushmeni were slain, and not more than about two per cent. of the number existing a hundred years ago are now aliv

But, strange to say, these Bushmen, who are regarded as the lowest types of Africans, in one thing excel all the other South African tribes whose acquaintance I made between the south coast and 10? south latitude. I have in my possession about two hundred sketches on wood and stone and ostrich shells, by various tribes, but everyone who knows anything about drawing must acknowledge that those which were done by Bushmen are superior to any of the other

They sketch them in their caves and paint them with ochre, or chisel them out in rocks with stone implements, and on the tops of mountains we may see representations of all the animals which have lived in those parts in former times

They are therefore obliged to take to agriculture

Drunkenness is the chief cause of their dying ou

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. But among the Betchuanas the men never allow the womeni to touch their cattle.

They were so given to drunkenness that whole families died of hunger, because when a trader arrived there with brandy, they would give him the very last sheep they had got for

The Betchuanas regard their women only as slaves, but since ploughs have been introduced the women have gained more respect, and their work is confined more to the homes.