Charles Hamilton
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proposed 1869.04.06
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[from Weekends with Legends by Bridget Hilton-Barber]: [Hamilton found himself along the banks of the Mzimhkulu River], the only white man within miles and miles. He arrived in Durban in January 1864, and gallivanted a bit, before settling in Pietermaritzburg where he manufactured sausages under the name of Mrs Hamilton's sausages. ... [he] upped and left 'Maritzburg and his sausages in search of more interesting things down the south coast. Here he came upon a chain of English settlements, made of crude huts and shelters, but offering company and hospitality. Hamilton stayed awhile, gambling in Umzinto and losing all his money before wandering off entirely on his own along the banks of the Mzimkhulu River. Out here, below the reaches of Oribi Gorge, he found the local people most agreeable. 'A comfortable hut was allotted for me,' he wrote, 'and having done with the remains of civilization, I resigned the fragments of what had been European clothes and dressed myself as a Kaffir ...' ... He lived here for 10 months ... Eventually, however, Hamilton tired of it all, and wandered back up the coast again, to the Fafa River, where he met some European settlers, dressed himself 'like a Christian' once more and went back to Pietermartizburg to make sausages and collect his remittance.
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On the Customs of the Kaffirs [Abstract]
Author(s): F. G. H. Price and Charles Hamilton
Source: Journal of the Anthropological Society of London, Vol. 8 (1870 - 1871), pp. xiv-xvii