Grammar of The Kaffir Language-Xhosa

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Publisher: Wesleyan Society Publication date: 1872 Number of pages: 207The importance of the Kaffir and Sechuana languages, as opening to us the means of communicating with ail the tribes of Africa south of the Equator, renders every attempt to facilitate their acquisition interesting to the merchants and traders of the Cape colony. As a medium for the communication of Divine truth, the Sechuana, from the extensive range of its influence, has peculiar claims on the attention of the British and Foreign Bible Society. A Kaffir and Sechuana version of the sacred Scriptures would form the basis of many others, spoken by some millions of the human race. Along the line of coast from Delagoa-Bay to Cape Delgado, in 10° south, the influence of the Portuguese is unfavourable to any efforts towards the mental and moral improvement of the native tribes in the interior; and it is questionable whether access to them would be permitted. Beyond Cape Delgado, the influence of the Imaum of Muscat, the friend and ally of the British Government, might undoubtedly be exerted to facilitate British intercourse with the interior.