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Some time ago it might have been believed that words like ‘kaffir’ and ‘nigger’ defined a tribe. Or else how can a tribe of people be called Bushmen or Masarwa?

Masarwa is the equivalent of ‘nigger’ a term of contempt which means, obliquely, a low, filthy nation.

Things wouldn't have been so bad if black men as a whole had not accepted their oppression and added to it with their own taboos and traditions.

End of Chapter four. The closing conversation with George Appleby-Smith may lead this story to an interesting climax.

"You must spy on the refugee and tell me if he's eating up all the women."