P I L a T l SWDD.
DABIYAKI AND UPAPAZI,
AMAZULU BOYS IN DANOING-DBESS.
WE have here two tolerably fair specimens of the risicg generation amongst the Zulus, Dalnyaki and Upapazi,
aristnnatic-looking lads, arrayed in their visiting costuni6f Jitid pcrfcctlv conscious of their plGdsing cippcsriincc Dabiyjilci
the liglitm--coloured boy of the two, is playing carelessly upon a simple reed pipe, the sounds of which are modulated at
pleasui-e by appljing one fiuger to the orifice at the end: he is leaning against a hen-house, built of osiers and plastered
over with clay. To the left is a small thatched " izzelulu," or corn-store. Upapazi is a lad of an amiable countenance,
mul is some shades darker in colour than his companion. I have observed a great difference in the intensity of the
hue.>5 of the skin amongst the Kafirs; here and there we meet mth individuals who are scarcely darker than the
Hottentots, exhibiting a yellowish b row complexion; whilst others again have skins vieing in blackness with the people
of Mozambique and the Negro races of the north. Occasionally, however, Albinos occur among the Kafirs, as they do "
also, though rarely, amongst other dark-skinned tribes, I was fortunate enough to meet with a boy belonging to a
kraal of Zulus m the southern district of Natal, who was a true Albino, and of whom I obtained a correct likeness. Both
father and mother were a-s dark as ordinary Zulus, yet both their children-two boys—were perfectly white, with wliitish
yellow wool on their heads, and restless pink eyes. The youngest boy had been dead some months, and the one I examined
was about t^^•elve years of 5^;e, repulsive in appearance, and remarkably timid in his manners. The skin hung in loose
folds about the arms and body, and looked rough and almost leprous in places. The natives regarded the boy as something
extraordinary; he was employed to hei-d cattle, and went naked like the other Kafii- children.
The names of the Zulus are frequently significant of some peculiar trait in their character, whilst many of them
are amusing to an European ear; for instance, amongst girls we often meet with the following: Unomashinga, "she has
rascality;" Unjakazana, "a little female dog;" Unozindaba, "she has news," or "brings tidings;" Unozinyoka, "she
hath serpents," or "is vnth serpents;" Umpezikazi, "a she-wolf or hyena;" Unozimpezi, "she has wolves," or "is with
wolves or ¡lyenas," or "possesses them." There is a boy at Umvoti eaUed Uiijokana, "the little serpent;" Utchaya
ikancla nieans "beat the head;" and Usothlianga, "we will eat the sun," A Cbristianised native at the Rev. Aldine
Grout's, one of the American Missionary stations (where I experienced the utmost kindness and hospitality whilst suffering
from a violent fever), rejoices in the extraordinarj' name of Untaba-kayi-konjua, "a mountain not to be pointed at:"
he has lately married, and has a child, which nothing could persuade him from calling Unkorao-ka-yethle, sirmifyine "a
nice cow. or culf," ®