The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-08-01

II is not the miserable nature of the noble
savage that isthe new things tips the whin-
pering over him with maudlin admiration,
1 and the affecting to regret him, and the draw
| ing of any comparison of advantage between
the blemishess of civilization and the tenor Of
his swinish life. There may have been a
change now and then in those diseased alb
surdities, but there is none in him. -. q
Think of the Bnshmen. Think of the two
men and the two women who have been ex-
hibited about England for some years, Are
the majority of persons-who remember the
horrid little leader of that party in his tester
ing bundle Of hides, with his filth and his
antipathy to water, and his straddled legs,
and his odiods eyes shaded by his brutal
hand, and his cry of "Qu-u-u-u-aaaF' (Bos-
jesmsn for something desperately insulting
have no doubt)-conscious of an afectionate
yearning towards that noble savage, oris'it
idiosyncratic in me to abhor, detest, abomi-
nate, and abjure him D. ] have no reserve on
this subject, and will frankly state that, set
ting aside that stage of the entertainment
when he counterfeited the death of some
creature he had shot, by laying his head on
his hand and shaking his left legg-at which
time ! think it would have been justifablo
homicide to STAY him-I have never seen
that group sleeping, smoking, and eSpectora-
ting round their brazier, but have sincerely
desired that something might happen to the
charcoal smoldering therein, which would
cause the immediate sufocation of the whole
Of tie noble strangers.
There is at present a party Of Zulu Kafirs
exhibiting at the St. Georges Gallery, Hyde
Park Corner London. These noble sayages
are represented in most agreeable manner ;
they are seen in an elegant theatre, fitted
with appropriate scenery of great beauty, and
they are described in avery sensible and UNI
pretending lecture, delivered with a modesty
which is quite pattern to all similar expo
nents. Though extremely ugly, they are
much better shaped than such of their pre-
decessors as | have referred to; and they are
rather picturesque to the eye, though far
from odorifcrous to the nose. What a visi-
tor left to his own interpretings and imagiu-
ings might suppose these noblemen to be
about, when they give vent to that pantomim-
ic expression which is quite settled to be the
natural gift of the noble savage, cannot pos
sibe conceive; for it is so much too lumin-
Gus for my personal civilisation that it con-
veys no idea to my mind beyond "A general
stamping, romping, and raving. remarkable
las everything in savage life is) for its dire
uniformity. But let us-with the interpre-
ter's assistance, of which for one stand so
much in nced-see what the noble savage
does in Zulu Kaflirland. <a.f Ni...i g. B.
The noble savage sets king to reign over
him, to whom he submits his life and limbs
without a murmur or question, and whose
whole life is passed chin deep in lake of
blood; but who, after killing necessarily, is
in his turn killed by his relations and friends,
the moment a gray hair appears on his head.
All the noble sayagc's wars with his fellow
savages land he takes no pleasure in anything
clse) are wars of xtermination-which is the
best thing know of Kim, and the most COM
Portable to my mind when look at him. He
has no moral feelings of any kind, sort, or
description; and his emission" may be sum.
med up as simply dabolica
The ceremonies with which he family d.
versifes his life are, of course, of kindred
nature. If he wants a wife he appears be-
fore the kennel of the gentleman whom he
has selected for his father-in-law, attended by
party of male friends of avery strong fla
vor, who screech and whistle and stamp an
offer of so many cows for the young lady's
hand. The chosen father-in-aw-als sup
ported by a high-favored party of male
friends-screeches whistles, and yells, (being
seated on the ground, he can't stamp that
there never was such a daughter in the mar
kct as his daughter, and that he must have
six more cows. The son-in-law and his Sc
lect circle of hackers, screech, whistle, stamp,
and yell in reply, that they will give three
more cows. The father-in-law IAN old dclu-
der, overpaid at the beginnng) accepts four,
aud rises to bind the bargain. The whole
party, the young lady included, then falling
into epilcptic commissions, and screeching,
whistling stamping, and yelling together
and nobody taking any notice of the young
lady (whose charms are not to be thought of
without a shudder)-the noble savage is con-
sidered married, and his friends make demon
iacal leaps at him by way of congratulation.
: When the noble savage finds himself a
little unwell, and mentions the circumstance
to his friends, it is Immediately perceived that
he is under the influence of witchcraf. A
learned parsonage, called lmyanger or Witch
Doctor, is Immediately sent for to Nooker
the Umtargartie, to smell out the witch
The male inhabitants of the kraal being seat
ed on the ground, the learned doctor, got
up like grizzly bear, appears, and admins
sers dance of the most terrific nature. du-
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