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" C H A H L B Y , " A HALP-CA8TB KAPIK BOY AT NATAL.
•• In tliL- poul of guaiiiis tbe herd-boy is gazing."
IN all pai-ts of the world, but more especially in British colonies, wherever an aboriginal race is found in contact
with Europeans, we meet with a half-caste race, which is verj' frequently an improvement upon the original stock, and
often exhibit«! considei-able pei-sonal beauty. Amoi)|rst the Natal Kafirs I have seen many half-castes between Dutch and
English and Kafir women; and in one instance I met with an entire family of nine or ten children, the offspring of
one of the earliest settlers by his marriage with a Zulu woman, a relative of the king; tbey reminded me of the New
Zealanders, both in colour and personal appearance.
The boy " Charley," whose portrait is here given on the accompanying Plate, is an orphan, son of one of the English
sailors who came to Natal some yeai-s back with Lieut. Farewell. His parents being both dead, he was brought up by
his relations in one of the kraals on the coast, and shortly before my sketch was made, the Rev. Mr, Lindley (one of
the excellent American missionaries who are labouring amongst the Zulus) took him under his care at Inanda, with a
view of educating him. The poor little fellow was as ignorant and wOd as the goats he drove out to theii- daily pastures,
but with a sweet and amiable disposition, that only required education to mould it at «ill.
The flowers introduced into the sketch are the Natal lily (ainaryms) and the blue lotus, which is so great an
ornament to the African rivers. Beyond are those tall sedgy reeds that constantly occur on the margin of the water,
with a euphorbium tree in the distance, shewing ite candelaln-a-shaped branches.
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