. A naturalist in the Transvaal. ARTS AND INDUSTRIES IN THE SPELONKEN. 1 & 2. Magwamba necklaces. 4. Mavenda pick or hoe. 3. Magwamba snuff-box. 5. Magwamba ladle. 6, 7, 8, 9. Magwamba head-rests. ZOUTPANSBERG AND THE MAGWAMBAS. 103 less clothed but more artistically attired brethren, helooked like an East-end rough at home. Oh! nine-teenth-century civilization, you have polluted the fairestspots with smoke and hideous erections, from whichthe factory bell tolls like a Newgate summons to the. MAGWAMBA WAR-AXES. condemned labourers; now in the Spelonken you sendus such a vulgarized, if civilize
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. A naturalist in the Transvaal. ARTS AND INDUSTRIES IN THE SPELONKEN. 1 & 2. Magwamba necklaces. 4. Mavenda pick or hoe. 3. Magwamba snuff-box. 5. Magwamba ladle. 6, 7, 8, 9. Magwamba head-rests. ZOUTPANSBERG AND THE MAGWAMBAS. 103 less clothed but more artistically attired brethren, helooked like an East-end rough at home. Oh! nine-teenth-century civilization, you have polluted the fairestspots with smoke and hideous erections, from whichthe factory bell tolls like a Newgate summons to the. MAGWAMBA WAR-AXES. condemned labourers; now in the Spelonken you sendus such a vulgarized, if civilized, wretch as this! Hedances not, he smiles not, he only looks on, but in ashort time he will dispense with these hideous robesand once more dance and eat his mealies with hishappy friends. The dances might be described as of a program nature, and represented phases and events of Kafir life, such as bearding a lion in his den, £c. ; they com-menced at about 11 A.M. and continued almost uninter-ruptedly till about 4 P.M. The men and boys formeda wide outer circle, inside which in two close phalanxeswere the married women and unmarried girls. AKafir really dances—he acts the dance, he enjoys it, helives his part in it; to him a dance is a lamentationor a rejoicing, the glory of a fight or the story retold 104 A NATURALIST IN THE TRANSVAAL. of a homely reminiscence: no wonder the labourergladly tramps back from the large towns, where hisexistence is a compound of work and restriction, t