The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-24 00:00:00

COLONIES OF WESTERN AFRICA•

Colburn, London, 1537. ip
The author of these volumes of travels is CaP
ta
Alexander, whose " Transatlantic Sketches" °I
Net'
member perusing sonic time since, with great joie
His present work is no way inferior to that, its tlor
e"
being quite as singular in their character, and the eig
neral style of the narrative equally graphic. There
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an air of truth and vivacity pervading the g. 9 the
author's descriptions, not often to be met with 1° no
works of modern travellers. He evidently writes e
ver
(mole, particularly in his sketches of Kaffir Aga 6,
which evince considerable discrimination. 1,(1
count of the late war between the Aboriginal tribes I',
the Dutch and English colonists of Southern AtriCo
of the various horrors to which it gave rise ; and the
r,
mantic incidents in which it was fruitful even to 011,e0
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flowing—the account of this destructive war, at
fortunately brought to a conclusion, is given with gr-
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ability, by one who took no slight share in it•
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specimen of Captain Alexander's manner, we stli, 'lof
his description of the mode adopted by the Kars'
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slaughtering animals for their festivals, which '9
mind the reader of a similar description in Btu°
to'
Abyssinian Travels, which, fifty years ago, were Poe
nounced by the oracular Johnson, to be of nes
slightest authority : 00
" According to the South African custom, a fat °'
driven to the Kaffirs to slaughter; and we then YI itnellooo
most strange and revolting spectacle, illustrative of wilt
customs. Half a dozen Kaffirs started up, laid aside eco
karosses, and approached the ox; one with a noose on th
of an assegai slipped it over his horns ; another held tha the
a third put a riem round his left leg, and another rot' oad
hind leg; the head and legs were then drawn together' cool
the ox fell bellowing to the ground. The animal wa' tcber
secured firmly, and prevented from rising*. The chief boy tibe
then with an assegai, cut open about anfoot of the ski? wig'
belly ; and lying on the ground, amidst the groans and so (hi
glen of the unfortunate brute, he thrust his right arm liPbcort
shoulder into the ox ; gave a twist and a pull at the war
ruptured one of. the large arteries ; and drew away the% the
tom, which was thrown on a fire, cooked and eaten, bcf°,' Ore
last convulsion of the unfortunate victim had ceased! lc ofs
were all exceedingly disgusted, and some felt very °oaf
witnessing this barbarous sacrifice. Not so the Kafficil,toke
immediately proceeded to flay the ox ; with an axe tbloot of
in the ribs across the middle ; the animal was in a rot 0
blood ; and one fellow taking out the gall bladder, 'll,
with it, and drank the warm gall to make him strong': _ ere
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