THE KAFIRS OF NATAL AND THE ZULU COUNTRY

First edition: x, 403 pages, frontispiece with watermark at the bottom, coloured map, 3 plates with light foxing, woodcuts in the text, rebound in half leather with matching marbled boards, black title label gilt on the spine with gilt decoration, uncut top edge and fore-edge, a very good copy.

Mendelssohn (Sidney South African Bibliography volume 2 page 315: One of the best works on the native races of Natal and Zululand publshed up to the middle of the nineteenth century. The author took great pains to gain an accurate knowledge of the habits of the people during his four years' residence in Natal, and the results of his researches have been amplified by the addition of information collected from the works of Dohne, Isaacs, and others, and the MSS. of " the unfortunate traveller. Green," and from the evidence given by Mr. Fynn before a special com- mission.

The volume contains a history of Chaka and his successors, together with a complete account of the personal appearance, mode of life, and the political, social, and domestic institutions of the natives, with information respecting their superstitions, laws, warfare, and manufactures. In the appendix will be found " A Sketch of Natal," and a short grammar of the Kaffir language, and there are four lithographic plates, from sketches by Mr. E. Redinger of Natal, and a number of woodcuts in the letterpress.