I understood from this that he meant his people formerly owned horses.

"Then," he continued, "we break up, some stop one place, some another--

we come here."

The old chief thus made out ten fathers, and, taking four generations

for a hundred, it made out that, about 250 years previously, the Caffres

must have resided not far from Nubia.

Two days after our feast all the Caffre visitors had gone home, and we

had settled down again to our usual quiet life.

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