Jasper Lyle A Tale of Kafirland Author:Harriet Ward General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1851 Original Publisher: G. Routledge and Co. Subjects: Xhosa (African people) South Africa Kaffraria English fiction Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / Africa / General History / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa ... more »Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. THE BUSHMAN. The little bushman, whom we have introduced as the attendant of our English officers, must be more particularly described ere we advance in a story in which he will frequently make his appearance. The reader will consider his name -- May -- rather a misnomer for such a creature. He is about three feet and a half high ; his head would be bald, but for a few bead-like tufts of hair, scattered vaguely about the surface. His eyes are long, black, twinkling, and very merry, but his expression is less cunning than that of the Hottentot physiognomy. His nose! where is it ? His mouth is wide, hut his white teeth redeem this feature from its ugliness ; his skin is of the hue of pale gingerbread. The countenance, however, is far from unpleasing; his voice is odd, with occasional clicks in pronunciation, which May chooses to introduce, notwithstanding his education. The hands and feet are exquisitely small, and the frame lithe and agile as a monkey's. His costume is copied from his masters ; the materials are coarser, but the "wide-awake" hath on him a more jaunty air, the feather a more " knowing " fall, and this ia fastened to the hat with a gilt bugle, the gift of some light infantry officer, and much prized by May, who had ...« less