bing them of their livestock. A Xhosa, he wrote, "regards and treats these
robbers as beasts of prey, follows their spoor after they have perpetrated
their deed, and kills those that one can lay hold of. In the same way one also
traces the whereabouts of such a robber-band, attacks them during the
night-time and destroys them without the slightest forbearance and re-
gardless of age or sex."78 In 18°4, German doctor Henry Lichtenstein
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