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 * |   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    |
 * 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