Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 58, Issue 4West, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1899 - Natural history |
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Page 765
... cattle kraal is filled up with bushes, and the huts are all deserted. An extent of country is marked out, over which no person must pass or cattle graze. A breach of this rule is punished with confiscation of property, and if committed ...
... cattle kraal is filled up with bushes, and the huts are all deserted. An extent of country is marked out, over which no person must pass or cattle graze. A breach of this rule is punished with confiscation of property, and if committed ...
Page 866
... cattle. To-day no kraal is self-supporting. Most of them produce the bulk of their own food (though the area is not wholly self-supporting even in grain), but are dependent upon the earnings of one or more members working in towns for ...
... cattle. To-day no kraal is self-supporting. Most of them produce the bulk of their own food (though the area is not wholly self-supporting even in grain), but are dependent upon the earnings of one or more members working in towns for ...
Page 867
... cattle. Cattle were the major item in lobola (the cattle due by the bridegroom's family to the bride's family to seal the marriage contract), anything else being part of an exchange of gifts. Major fines to the chief or fees to doctors ...
... cattle. Cattle were the major item in lobola (the cattle due by the bridegroom's family to the bride's family to seal the marriage contract), anything else being part of an exchange of gifts. Major fines to the chief or fees to doctors ...
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Personal and general | 449 |
y K | 479 |
Ciskei coasts have changed some of the localities hitherto accepted in historical | 540 |
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