IV.] .THE AFRICAN NEGRO : II. 105 



still exist, and have from time to time given considerable trouble 

 to the administrators of British Central Africa. But how true 

 are Mr Mackenzie's words, if the political be separated from the 

 ethnical relations, may be judged from the fact that of the original 

 founders of these petty Shire states only two were full-blood 

 Makololos. All the others were, I believe, Barotse, Batoka, or 

 Batonga, these akin to the savage Bashukulumbwe. 



Thus the Makololos live on, in their speech above the Victoria 

 Falls, in their name below the Victoria Falls, and ~ 



Death with- 



it is only from history we know that since about . ut Extinc- 

 1870 the whole nation has been completely wiped 

 out everywhere in the Zambesi valley. But even amongst cultured 

 peoples history goes back a very little way, 10,000 years at most 

 anywhere. What changes and shiftings may, therefore, have else- 

 where also taken place during prehistoric ages, all knowledge of 

 which is now past recovery ! 



Few Bantu peoples have lent a readier ear to the teachings of 

 Christian propagandists than the Xosa, Basuto, and Bechuana 

 natives. Several stations in the heart of Kanrland Blythswood, 

 Somerville, Lovedale, and others have for some time been self- 

 supporting, and prejudice alone would deny that 

 they have worked for good amongst the surrounding Spread of 

 Gaika, Galeka, and Fingo tribes. Soga, a member among the 



of the Blythswood community, has produced a 



translation of the Pilgrim's Progress, described by 



the Rev. J. Macdonald as "a marvel of accuracy and lucidity of 



expression 1 "; numerous village schools are eagerly attended, and 



much land has been brought under intelligent cultivation. 



The French and Swiss Protestant teachers have also achieved 

 great things in Basutoland, which may now be regarded as an 

 integral part of Christendom. Here the old tribal system has 

 yielded to a higher social organisation, and the Batau, Baputi and 

 several other tribal groups have been merged in industrious pas- 

 toral and agricultural communities professing a somewhat strict 

 form of Protestant Christianity, and entirely forgetful of the former 

 heathen practices associated with witchcraft and ancestry-worship. 



1 Op. fit. p. 47. 



