Is the immolation of human beings at the death of chieftains a Kaffre custom, as it was one of western Africa? The following extract gives an answer in the affirmative, the only difference being the _pretext_ of the murders. On the "death of the mother of Chaka, the great Zulu chief, a public mourning was held, which lasted for the space of two days, the people being assembled at the kraal of the chief to the number of sixty or eighty thousand souls. Mr. Fynn, who was present, describes the scene as the most terrific which it is possible for the human mind to conceive. The immense multitude were all engaged in rending the air with the most doleful shrieks, and discordant cries and lamentations; whilst, in the event of their ceasing to utter them, they were instantly butchered as guilty of a crime against the reigning tyrant. It is said that no less than six or seven thousand persons were destroyed on this occasion, charged with no other offence than exhausted nature in the performance of this horrid rite, their brains being mercilessly dashed out amidst the surrounding throng. As a suitable _finale_ to this dreadful tragedy, it is said that ten females were actually buried alive with the royal corpse; whilst all who witnessed the funeral were obliged to remain on the spot for a whole year." Details of Kaffre manners may be multiplied almost _ad infinitum_; and as their history and habits are likely to fill a Blue Book, a short treatise can only notice their more prominent peculiarities. However, lest an undue inference be drawn from their contrast to the Hottentot, we must remember that the former has encroached upon the latter, and that such transitional populations as existed have been swept away. Now comes a coloured population--not indigenous, but the descendants of the _slaves_ of the colony. This consists of-- 1. Negroes. 2. Malays from the Indian Archipelago. 3. Malagasi from Madagascar. To which we must add, as of mixed blood, the offspring of-- 1. Negroes and Dutch, English, &c. 2. Malays and Dutch, English, &c. 3. Malagasi and Dutch, English, &c. This seems to be the limit of the intermixture; since, between the Malays and Negroes, &c., there is but little intermarriage. The _possible_ elements, however, of hybridity are numerous, _e.g._, Griquas and Negroes, Griquas and Malays, Malays and Kaffres, &c. _The so-called yellow men._--On the 4th of August, 1782, the "Grosvenor" Indiaman was wrecked on the coast of Natal. Of the crew who escaped, some reached the Cape and others remained amongst the natives. In 1790, an expedition was undertaken in search of them.