differ but slightly from them in most particulars. They use a stabbing
assagy instead of the light throwing spear of the Amakosa, and are
consequently in war more disposed to fight at close quarters than are
the Amakosa. The English have never yet been at war with the Zulus, but
before our occupation of Natal the Dutch emigrants had several
encounters, the events connected with which have been detailed in the
preceding pages.

The Matabili are a tribe of Kaffirs in the interior, nearly due north of
Natal. They are a branch of the Zulu nation, and occupy the country
situated in about 26 degrees south latitude, and about 29 degrees east
longitude.

The Bushmen may be called the gipsies of Africa. They are usually
wanderers, travelling from place to place according as the game travels.
They are small men, but immensely hardy and strong, arrant thieves, and
almost untamable. They usually live in caves among the rocks, or build
rough huts in the bush. They are the only inhabitants of South Africa
who use the bow and arrow, and these men poison their arrows with so
deadly a composition as to produce certain death in the creature struck
by an arrow.

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