South Africa -- Description and travel; South Africa -- History -- 1836-1909; South Africa -- History -- To 1836
I find from the printed report of the seminary that the four following
young ladies got the prizes in 1877 at Lovedale for the different
virtues appended to their names. I insert the short list here not only
that due honour may be given to the ladies themselves, but also that my
readers may see something of Kafir female nomenclature.
GIRLS.
GENERAL PRIZES.
_Bible._ _Good Conduct._
Victoria Kwankwa. Ntame Magazi.
_Tidiness in Dress._ _For best kept room._
Ntombenthle Njikelana. Sarah Ann Bobi.
Sarah Ann Bobi.
Miss Kwankwa and Miss Bobi had I suppose Christian names given to them
early in life. The other two are in possession of thoroughly Kafir
appellations,--especially the young lady who has excelled in tidiness,
and who no doubt will have become a bride before these lines are read in
England.
I was taken out from King Williamstown to Peeltown to see another
educational Kafir establishment. At Peeltown the Rev. Mr. Birt presides
over a large Kafir congregation, and has an excellent church capable of
holding 500, which has been built almost exclusively by Kafir
contributions. The boys’ school was empty, but I was taken to see the
girls who lived together under the charge of an English lady. I wished
that I might have been introduced to the presence of the girls at once,
so as to find how they occupied themselves when not in school. But this
was not to be. I was kept waiting for a few moments, and then was
ushered into a room where I found about twenty of them sitting in a row
hemming linen. They were silent, well behaved and very demure while I
saw them,--and then before I left they sang a hymn.
If I had an Institution of my own to exhibit I feel sure that I should
want to put my best foot forward,--and the best foot among Kafir female
pupils is perhaps the singing of hymns and the hemming of linen.
CHAPTER III.
CONDITION OF THE CAPE COLONY.
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