“No man deems it any sin whatever to seduce his neighbor’s wife:  his only grounds of fear are the probability of detection, and the fine demanded by law in such cases.  The females, accustomed from their youth up to this gross depravity of manners, neither manifest, nor apparently feel, any delicacy in stating and describing circumstances of the most shameful nature before an assemblage of men, whose language is often obscene beyond description” (105).  “Fornication is a common and crying sin.  The women are well acquainted with the means of procuring miscarriage; and those means are not unfrequently resorted to without bringing upon the offender any punishment or disgrace whatever....  When adultery is clearly proved the husband is generally fully satisfied with the fine usually levied upon the delinquent....  So degraded indeed are their views on subjects of this nature ... that the man who has thus obtained six or eight head of cattle deems it a fortunate circumstance rather than otherwise; he at once renews his intimacy with the seducer, and in the course of a few days becomes as friendly and familiar with him as ever” (141-42).

“Whenever the Kaffir monarch hears of a young woman possessed of more than ordinary beauty, and at all within his reach, he unceremoniously sends for her or fetches her himself....  Seldom or never does any young girl, residing in his immediate neighborhood, escape defilement after attaining the age of puberty (165).”  “Widows are constantly constrained to be the servants of sin” (177).

“The following singular usage obtains universally ... all conjugal intercourse is entirely suspended from the time of accouchement until the child be completely weaned, which seldom takes place before it is able to run about.  Hence during the whole of that period, an illicit and clandestine intercourse with strangers is generally kept up by both parties, to the utter subversion of everything like attachment and connubial bliss.  Something like affection is in some instances apparent for awhile, but it is generally of comparatively short duration.”

Fritsch (95) describes a Kaffir custom called U’pundhlo which has only lately been abolished: 

“Once in awhile a troupe of young men was sent from the principal town to the surrounding country to capture all the unmarried girls they could get hold of and carry them away forcibly.  These girls had to serve for awhile as concubines of strangers visiting the court.  After a few days they were allowed to go and their places were taken by other girls captured in the same way.”

Before the Kaffirs came under the influence of civilization, this custom gave no special offence; “and why should it?” adds Fritsch, “since with the Kaffirs marriageable girls are morally free and their purity seems a matter of no special significance.”  When boys reach the age of puberty, he says (109), they are circumcised;