New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1900-02-03

that the RED DlOOQ can be seer
coursing beneath it. That is thu
Zulu's greatest pride. He viii
point to his skin to prove that ht
is pure bred Zulu-the real Ethio
plan of the ancients. And it is sc
with the other tribes. The fla
feet and bowed legs and Other
peculiarities of the American negro
are all missing.
AS for the morality of the Kafi'
that differs according to the tribe
and it's proximity to civilization
The Zulu is eminently virtuous
Infraction of the law Of morality is
punished by death. The culprits
are placed or. the ground with their
respective heads resting upon flat
stone. Then their heads are crushed
with another stone. On the other
hand, the Hottentot, having been a
close companion of the white man,
is the most immoral and depraved
human being perhaps in existence.
The Matabeles are moral, so are the
Basutos and the Mashonas. The
Bechuanas are less so, and the
Bushmen rank next to the despised
Hottentots. That the latter are as
bad as stated is evident when the
Zulu will not work in the same mine
with one nor sleep in the same
room or kraal.
Nearly all the tribes, save the
Hottentots and Bushmen, are
cleanly, the Zulus particularly so.
The Zulu goes in bathing twice a
day. He cleanses his teeth with
milk at sunrise and again at sunset.
All the tribes, even those partially
civilized, believe in ghosts and
spirits. Many worship the spirits
of the departed. Sill others are
fetish worshippers.
The most advanced tribe is the
Basuto nation, in which there are
fifty thousand Christians, with one
hundred and forty-four schools.
Strict as are the laws against the
indiscriminate selling Of liquors to
natives, they are yet able to obtain
all they want. And when their
supply of ordinary rum and whisky
runs short, they manufacture the
notorious "Cape Smoke. This
addiction to alcohol is the great
curse of the Basutos, and in fact, Of
every other tribe.
Cape Smoke must be tasted to be
appreciated d-provided the person
thus experimenting survives. For
be it known that Cape Smoke con-
sists of wood alcohol, red pepper
and sulphuric acid. This terrible
concoction is relished by the Kafirs
as no European drink is-they have
not yet been civilized up to the level
Of the American "mixed drink" +"
But to return to the Basutos. For
more than one hundred years
this tribe has been undergoing a
process of forcible civilization.
Good men and good women have
sacrificed their lives to the noble
cause.
Just before the present war
began, there was a gathering Of
Indunas, or native priests, near the
Free State border. Thousands of
"Christian" natives attended. Two
oxen were brought into a ring
formed for the purpose. One Of
the animals was snow white, re-
presenting the British. The other,
coal black represented the Beers.
With weird incantations and wild
dances, these Christianized Basutos
skinned the poor oxen alive. The
white OK succumbed after five
hours of terrible agony; the black
one lived for nearly a day and a
night. The gods Of the Christian"
Basutos had answered the oracle
the Beers would win.
The Kafir is a stole. With him,
what is, is. l have seen Zulu's
toe crushed by a rock. Calmly he
cut the injured member off, tied
the wound up with rag, and then
as calmly resumed work. This
stoicism it is that makes the Kafir
such Il formidable foe.
The native does not know his
own power = due to numerical
superiority. Arm him with modern
weapons and you build a Frank
enstein, who will prove as terrible
a conundrum as Mrs. Shelley's
monster. For despite his schooling
and outstanding and civilizing,
the Kafir remains Kafir, unable
to forget his wrongs, and held in
leash only through fear of the
white mans th-dealing weapons.
Even now the Basutos are consider
ing the advisability of attacking
the side that will lose in the cam-
paign between the contending white
men. Let the British be defeated
q few more times, and even the
LOYALTY of the BasutO chief, LerO-