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Title: The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. Wood... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, John George, 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages
Publisher: J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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birds — in allusion to his conquests in bat-tle; Son of a cow; Noble elephant,and a hundred other titles, equally absurdin the mind of a European, but inspiringgreat respect in that of a Kaffir. When all this tumultuous scene is over,the review closes, just as our reviews do,with a march past. The king sits in hischair, as a general on his horse, while thewhole army defiles in front of him, each sol-dier as he passes bowing to the ground, andlowering his shield ?aid assagais, as wedroop our colors in the presence of the sov-ereign. In order to appear to the best ad-vantage on these occasions, and to impressthe spectators with the solemnity of the cer-emony, the king dresses himself with pecul-iar care, and generaJly wears a different cos-tume at each review. The dress which heusually wears at his evening receptions,when his officers come to report themselvesand to accompany him in his daily inspec-tion of his herds, is the usual apron or kilt,made either of leopards tails or monkeys
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(2.) HUNTING SCLInE. (See page r.i5.) INVENTION OF A MILITAKY SYSTEM. 123 skin, a headdress composed of various feath-ers and a round ball of clipped worsted,while his arms are decorated with rings ofbrass and ivory. It is easy to see how this custom of hold-ing a review almost immediately after thebattle, and causing either reward or punish-ment to come swiftly upon the soldiers,must have added to the efficiency of thearmies, especially when the system was car-ried out by a man like its originator Tchaka,an astute, sanguinary, determined, and piti-less despot. Under the two successivereigns of Dingan and Panda, and especiallyunder the latter, the efficiency of the Zuluarmy — the eaters of men — has notably di-minished, this result being probably owingto the neighborhoo:! of the English colonyat Natal, in which the Zulu warriors can finda refuge when they fear that their lives areendangered. Formerly, the men had nopossible refuge, so that a Kaffir was utterlyin the power of his c

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