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Kaffirs
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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Including Kaffirs proper and Zulus, a division of the Bantu negroes, found all over S. Africa, are a pastoral and latterly agricultural people of fine physique, naturally hospitable, honest, and truthful, but now much contaminated by the white man; Kaffir wars broke out in 1834,1846, 1850, and 1877; the name, which means infidel, was originally applied by the Mohammedans to all pagans.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Kaffirs'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​k/kaffirs.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Kaffirs'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​k/kaffirs.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.