+---------------------------------+--------------+--------------+ | | Total | Fighting | | | Population. | Men. | +---------------------------------+--------------+--------------+ | Fingos | 45,000 | 7,000 | | Idutywa Reserve | 17,000 | 3,000 | | Emigrant Tembus | 40,000 | 7,000 | | Tembus (Tembuland Proper) | 60,000 | 10,000 | | Gatberg {Bastards, 1,000} | 6,000 | 1,000 | | {Basutos, 5,000} | | | | Griqualand East, or {including} | 40,000 | 7,000 | | Adam Kok’s Land {the Bacas} | | | | Galekas (Kreli) | 66,000 | 11,000 | | Bomvanas (Moni) | 15,000 | 2,000 | | Pondomisi | 12,000 | 2,000 | | Pondos | 200,000 | 30,000 | | | --------- | ------- | | Total Transkei | 501,000 | 80,000 | +---------------------------------+--------------+--------------+ The number of fighting men has been arrived at by taking one-sixth of the total population. The number here will be seen to amount to 500,000, whereas the Galekas of whom alone we are speaking when we talk of the hostile Kafirs across the Kei are not in this return given as being more than 66,000. It must always be remembered that there has been no census taken of these tribes and that many of these numbers are estimated by little more than guess work. The Fingos and the mixed inhabitants of the district called the Idutywa Reserve are already British subjects. The Tembus are not so nominally; but are for the most part obedient to British magistrates who live among them. The inhabitants of the Gatberg are natives who live there because the place is vacant for them,--also with a British magistrate. They certainly cannot be regarded as an independent tribe. The Griquas of Adam Kok’s Land are bastard Hottentots who have been moved west from one locality to another, and now inhabit a country which used to be called No Man’s Land and which was probably cleared of its old inhabitants by Chaka, the great Zulu king. They are British subjects. Of the Galekas and Bomvanas I have said enough. The Pondomisi are a small tribe of independent Kafirs among whom a British magistrate lives. Then we come to the Pondos, the most numerous tribe of all,--so much so that the reader will be inclined to say that, while the Pondos remain independent, Kafraria cannot become English. But the Pondos are a very much less notorious people than the Galekas,--and constitute a tribe who will probably be willing to annex themselves when the Bomvanas and Galekas are annexed. Their present condition is rather remarkable.