Incidents of Travel in South Africa Being An Account of a Three Months Tour in
Incidents of Travel in South Africa Being An Account of a Three Months Tour in
Egerton K Laird
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Occa- sionally we would come to a Kaffir kraal. Kaffir is a name given to Zulus, Basutos, &c. , all alike, and is a general term for the natives. They do not appreciate it, and, like most people, even if they have no local habitation, still they are proud of belonging to some individual race. The Zulus look down on the Basutos, and these again on the natives of India, who are in Natal in num- bers ; but English people indiscriminately call the Blacks Kaffirs. Their kraals are not of large dimen...sions, perhaps twenty or thirty people in one, and three or four huts, which I described before as resembling a rounded hay- stack, with a hole on the ground for the entrance. We went to one at the first kraal, and crawled in. At first you cannot see, as the only light is from the aperture by which you come in, but at last the eye becomes accustomed to the gloom, and you can discern objects. They say they are clean, but I should be sorry to spend a night in one, as the floors are mud, and there is an absence of furni- ture.
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