622 AFRICAN NATIVE MKLODIKS. 



This seems to be a girls' Khiba song (a kind of heathen 

 knee-drill). The last line seems to show that, though growing 

 up, they have not yet put away childish things, and suggests 

 with some humour the psychology of adolescence. A friend's 

 collection gives a Suto threshing song, of which the melody of 

 the second member of the couplet corresponds to this ; the 

 former member being the same, one note higher, and still in 

 the Pentatonic scale. 



d S| r d (1|) S| r d 1, s, 



4. Likoche : ha ho sechaba se hlolang niakh(;oa I ( cf. No. 3 for 



cadence). 



i.e. " The Scotch ! There is no nation which conquers the 

 white men." I am not sure v.iiich war's exj^erience this repre- 

 sents. I think I was told the last, but it would probably be true 

 of all as regards the kilted Scots. The natrves have a saying 

 that thay dress like women, but tight like men. ( I might men- 

 tion that I am in no wise Scotch myself. 1 From the African 

 character of the tune, I should say that it was either an old 

 tune adapted to these modern words, or else represents the 

 experience of one of the earlier wars. 



m r d 



5. Hele^ Saolel (E be e Ic Saole. " Perhaps it is Saole.'') 



m r d 1| S| I'll l|d 



O ba a c-ca kac Saole 11 ii " Where is Saole going? 



O ita lekola, a (le) Ic raretsa. " He has a crest 



which he draggles." 

 O ba . . . . Hii (as before). 



This is a running song, going with the regulation war 

 " double '' of a native impi, which is imitated in the war dance. 

 The legend says that Saole was raiding cattle for his marriage, 

 but was caught in a pass and stoned. Native Christians 

 curiously connect it with Saul on the Damascus road. The song 

 is said to be very old, at least before horses became known in 

 the thirties of last century ; probably much older. 



s r s m r dl,s, 



6. He, moloi ! Tlhaka ; A 



ua e sollisa (re fihla. Mankiane h'a e- 

 ea mo sollisa). He, Moloi! sss. . . Tlhaka. 

 The puzzle is sollisa Sola is to cause a rash. 



Sola is to throw off hair (moult) or skin 



(slough). 

 SoUu is to wander, perhaps connected 

 with the first, in regard to a rash 

 changing place. 

 Sollisa is the causative ; Tlhaka being a 

 scar, either of the meanings seems 

 possible. 



