" Not long ago I was talking to a shrewd, vigorous old English lady who had spent some forty years of her life among the Kafirs in South Africa and knew them intimately.

In his book on the Kafirs of the Hindu-Kush, G.S. Robertson writes: "It is considered a reproach to have only one wife, a sign of poverty and insignificance.

I have noticed that several mention the Kafirs as being great wine-bibbers.

Elphinstone obtained much information respecting the Kafirs from one Mullah Najib in 1809; and Lumsden from a Kafir slave named Feramory, who was a general in the Afghan service in 1857.