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TEMBU (Ama-Tembu)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 577 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TEMBU (Ama-Tembu)

TEMBU (Ama-Tembu) , popularly called Tambookies; one of the most powerful of Kaffir tribes, who have given their name to Tembuland, a See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of Cape See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

Colony which lies See also:

south-See also:

west of Griqualand See also:

East. In Kaffir See also:

GENEALOGY (from the Gr. yivos, family, and Vryos, theory)

genealogy they hold an See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour-able position, being traditionally descended from Tembu, See also:

elder See also:

BROTHER

brother of Xosa, from whom most " See also:

KAFFIRS (Arabic Kafir, an unbeliever)

Kaffirs " claim descent (see KAFFIS2S).

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