The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-07-20
The Heather.

| The Dey. DaLiel Lindley for forty years mis-
sl,.lafy among the ZuIus near the western coast
OF South Africa lectured in the Congregations
Church last Thursday evening Hegave graphic
description of the heahens of that country, their
customs, social and otherwise. They are emphat-
ically heathens. Their dress is very primitive.
The women have a skirt of cow-hide hanging
from the waist The working dress of the women
reaches about to thickness but their holiday dress
is longer, although they have not yet adopted the
fashion of long trains. The children ana young
people wear the dress which nature furnishes
them and no other. Their Houses are composed
of grass and sticks. The sticks being arranged SO
as TO support pile of grass some little distance
above the ground, with q hole through one side
for an entrance, but no hole in the top Tor the
exit of smoke. These houses look like hollow
haystacks. In these huts you will find no turni-
ture. There will be a rude, circular fireplace,
few black earthen pots, paddle or wooden spoon.
Tn these miserable huts they live amid the smoke
and dirt.
Their food consists principally of corn. They
eat meat, but not much of it. They have few
other vegetables which they eat but corn IS their
principal food. They have five kinds OF domestf'
Gated animals--cattle, sheep, goats, dogs ana
chickens. They will eat the flesh OF their cattle
and sheen. but not of the dogs or chickens. The
women do all the work--the men are gentlemen
of leixure with rude hoe the women dig up
the ground plant the corn, tend 1t, then harvest
il and Gerry it to market in baskets on their
heads. The women are bought as wives, the
nice being, usually ten head OF cattle. Some
times the woman refuses to go with her purchas-
IL nd N make
comply. The men take rank in society according
to the number of wives they have. TIE gentlemen
nass q large portion of their time in litigation,
and are very found of 1t. Some of them are very
expert in cross-questioning witness; much
superior to our civilized pettifogsers.
The people are very superstitious. They believe
when anyone dies that he was bewitched, and they
are very anxious to fnd out who is the witch
This thew do by he aid of the witch detective,
who tells who the witch is by smelling of the
oeople till he smells the right one. When the
witch catcher says this is he,' the people Kill
him Immediately, together with ell OF his family
and his cattle, and burn his huts. When the
missionaries first went there the Witch-catcner
said If the people had anything to do with them
or learned to read their books they would De
bewitched and die.
they have no religion, except that they believe
in ghosts They have NO conception OF GOD.
and have no idols, but they can swearequal TO
any gentleman in the United States. They have
a good sense of right and wrong-saylng my
heart tells me This is right, &C.. Still they VIII
commit some kinds OF criminal acts, while under
the impression that 1t ie right to do so.
Tn teaching tn EN- christianity, their language
had first TO be learned and expressions invented
to convey to their minds the doctrines and ideas
of the christian religion. The bible. or nearly all
of il, has been printed in theiA language. AS
soon as a Zulu is converted he begins to cvilize.
He BUILDS an upright house, and does the out
door work, while his wife stays inside. The
christian natives wear clothing work their CATTLE
plow the ground, take their corn TO market in
carts or wagons; in short civilization follows
Immediately in thew AXE of the christian religion