necessarily the case in such warfare,
more depends on the exertion of individual combatants than
on the scientific combinations of masses. But the Zulu tribe
have, since the time of Dhaka, the great inventor of
military tactics, carried on war in a manner approaching the
notions of civilization.

"Their men are organized into regiments, each subdivided
into companies, and each commanded by its own chief, or
colonel; while the king, as commanding general, leads his
forces to war, disposes them in battle-array, and personally
directs their movements. They give an enemy notice that they
are about to match against him, and boldly meet him in the
open field. There is a military etiquette about them which
some of our own people have been slow to understand. They
once sent a message to the English commander that they would
'come and breakfast with him.' He thought it was only a
joke, and was very much surprised when the Kaffirs, true to
their promise, came pouring like a torrent over the hills,
leaving him barely time to get his men under arms before the
dark enemies arrived."[82]

And there are some legends told about African wars that would put the
"Arabian Nights" to the blush.[83]

In Africa, as in districts of Germany and Holland, woman is burdened
with agricultural duties. The soil of Africa is very rich,[84] and
consequently Nature furnishes her untutored children with much
spontaneous vegetation. It is a rather remarkable fact, that the
average African warrior thinks it a degradation for him to engage in
agriculture. He will fell trees, and help move a village, but _will
not_ go into the field to work. The women--generally the married
ones--do the gardening. They carry the seed on their heads in a large
basket, a hoe on their shoulder, and a baby slung on the back. They
scatter the seed over the ground, and then break up the earth to the
depth of three or four inches.

"Four or five gardens are often to be seen round a kraal,
each situated so as to suit some particular plant. Various
kinds of crops are cultivated by the Kaffirs, the principal
being maize, millet, pumpkins, and a kind of spurious
sugar-cane in great use throughout Southern Africa, and
popularly known by the name of 'sweet-reed.' The two former
constitute, however, the necessaries of life, the latter
belonging rath