Abstract
Abstract Maclean's Compendium of Kafir Laws and Customs, first published in 1858, represents the earliest attempt made in South Africa to record Native law. Colonel Maclean, who was chief commissioner of British Kaffra-ria, was assisted by experienced administrators and missionaries whose notes and comments he put together to form the book. The result was accepted by the Governor, Sir George Grey, “as a generally correct exposition of Kafir jurisprudence”. As this rare book has been inaccessible for so long, we publish below the first of a series of extracts from it. This instalment, taken from the edition of 1906, is “from the Rev. H. H. Dugmore's papers, as (originally) published in the Christian Watchman during 1846 and 1847”.
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