Question

what do the roof of caffre huts indicate

Answer 1

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This parlour is not his sphere," I reflected: "the Himalayan ridge or Caffre bush, even the plague-cursed Guinea Coast swamp would suit him better.

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on the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony (especially since the strange collapse of the Caffre [Xhosa] power, under the influence of scarcity and superstition in 1857-1858), great numbers of natives appear to have taken voluntary service under the settlers, and to have performed it with reasonable steadiness .