AFRICAN NATIVE MELODIES. 627 



s m s PI r d d 1, d in d m d r d 



Ea Moroka (2) ea loaiia. E loaiia ka, e loaiia ka lithopi (2). 

 The rArniy) of M, is fighting . with guns ! 



s 1 s m d r d d 1| d 



Klioino li ya scbokit. Ai slii shi 



The oxen are eating the grass 



This is a threshing song of the Barolong of Moroka, who 

 migrated to Thaba 'Nchii from Bechuanaland in the tliirties, and 

 assisted the Boers against the Basuto, who claimed to be over- 

 lords of the Barolong: hence the guns. 



Dudley Kidd gives a Gazaland song something like this, 

 and in the same scale; No. ly, though Setebele, also recalls the 

 melody theme. 



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



i6. U'lelauy? Oabo }na(;o a timana a tiina habclcgi (?) 



What are you crying for? Were your mother's people 

 stingy with the nurse-girls ? 



There is a version of this added on to the words of the 

 Suto lullaby, No. 12. It continues: 



. . . 'Mac a tiiiiana i:ania Ic His (that is the child's) mother 



boJiobe stints meat and bread. (It is 



the nurse-girl that speaks.) 



Ha kc nil) pcpUc When I carry him 



Ntaf'ac a timana sixpence. His father stints 6d. Ay, ee ! 



Tsela nka ea ka efc' I can go by Maseru. 



Nka ca ka Maseru. Which way can I go? 



The sixpence reveals modernity, and probably the Euro- 

 pean nationality of the child. Well, it is good to see ourselves 

 as others see us ; but I wonder if the nurse-girl had given notice 

 according to law. The language in this case is Suto. 



Let us now pass to Setebele. The following is a war-song : 



I'l r d d r d 1, d| r, 



17. Abamodandi bonke bati: Makivenkn'cshanc, siyakiifa. 

 The men of Modandi all are saying: Mak. (name of the 

 singer's tribe) we are dying. 



r d 1| S| I'll d| d| S| I'l, s t»i d 1, d 



Tinina^ Sibaqcdc. Oyayo. Oyayo. Hanibe kc! 



Wherefore so? W'e have finished them Then 



march away ! 



M. Junod gives a Ronga tune of similar wide compass, which 

 I venture to transpose to shew its Pentatonic character: 



S I'l I'l 



I'l r r r d 1| • 



S| 1, l,S|l'l, 

 S| I'l, s, 



Now all these South African tunes are in the Pentatonic or 

 Scotch scale in one or other of their forms. I have found rarely 



