Nowhere have patriarchal institutions been more highly developed than among the Zulu-Xosas, all of whom, except perhaps the Ama-Fingus and some other broken groups, claim direct descent from some eponymous hero or mythical founder of the tribe. Thus in the national traditions Chaka was seventh in descent from a legendary chief Zulu, from whom they take the name of _Abantu ba-Kwa-Zulu_, that is "People of Zulu's Land," although the true mother-tribe appear to have been the now extinct Ama-Ntombela. Once the supremacy and prestige of Chaka's tribe were established, all the others, as they were successively reduced, claimed also to be true Zulus, and as the same process went on in the far north, the term Zulu has now in many cases come to imply political rather than blood relationship. Here we have an object lesson, by which the ethnical value of such names as "Aryan," "Kelt," "Briton," "Slav," etc. may be gauged in other regions. So also most of the southern section claim as their founder and ancestor a certain _Xosa_, sprung from Zuide, who may have flourished about 1500, and whom the Ama-Tembus and Ama-Mpondos also regard as their progenitor. Thus the whole section is connected, but not in the direct line, with the Xosas, who trace their lineage from Galeka and Khakhabe, sons of Palo, who is said to have died about 1780, and was himself tenth in direct descent from Xosa. We thus get a genealogical table as under, which gives his proper place in the Family Tree to nearly every historical "Kafir" chief in Cape Colony, where ignorance of these relations caused much bloodshed during the early Kafir wars: Zuide (1500?) _______________________/\________________________ / \ Tembu Xosa (1530?) Mpondo | | _______|_______ Ama-Tembus Palo (1780?) / \ (Tembookies) ________________|______________ Mpondumisi (Mpondos) / \ Galeka Khakhabe | _________________|________________ Klanta / \ | Omlao Mbalu Ndhlambe Hinza | | \______/ | Gika (ob. 1828) Gwali | Kreli | | Ama-Ndhlambes \________/ | | (Tslambies) | Macomo Velelo Ama-Galekas | | Sandili Baxa \________/ \________/ | | Ama-Gaikas Ama-Mbalus