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A word-list of the Sechuana dialect appears with lists of Seroa 

 and Isi-Zulu in the appendix to the well-known work of M. Thomas 

 Arbousset, Relation d'un Voyage {V Exploration du Nord-Est de la 

 Coloiiie dn Cap de Botine E)<pp/ra)ice {entrepri!< dans fes mois de JIars, 

 Avril et Mai, 1836), published in Paris in 1842 and in English in 

 Capetown in 1846, London, 1852. This narrative is of a missionary 

 tour conducted by MM. T. Arbousset and Fran9ois Daumas, represen- 

 tatives of La Societe des Missions Evangeliques a Paris (Paris Mission 

 Society) in what is now northern Basutoland and eastern Orangia, but 

 was then the rocky and desolate refuge of the decimated and destitute 

 clans broken up by Zulu, Matabele and Mantatee hordes. This account 

 is exceedingly valuable as describing the tribal migrations previous to 

 the rise of Moshesh. Arbousset settled at Moriah, the country of the 

 Basuto, in 1835, and Daumas in 1837 at Mekuatling, among the Leg- 

 hoya, a tribe now practically extinct. Other labourers in this field 

 were Messrs. S. Holland, Prosper, Lemue and Casalis, who recorded 

 much important information in their correspondence, publislied in the 

 third volume of Theal's Basutoland Records. Eugene Casalis published 

 a Sechuana granniiar and syntax under the title Etudes snr la Lauffue 

 Sechuane. His work on The Basutos, or Tice^tty-three Years in South 

 Africa, did not appear until 1861. 



Two Wesleyan missionaries were stationed at Makwassi with the 

 Barolong — Mr. Broadbent in 1820, author of The Barolonys of South 

 Africa, and Mr. J. Archbell, who published in 1837 a Grammar of the 

 Bechnana Laiujiiaye. 



Before dealing further with Wesleyan missions, we nmst refer to the 

 experiences of a Capetown merchant, George Thompson, whose Travels 

 and Adventures in Southern Africa was published in 1827. Few narra- 

 tives are more thrilling than that where he describes the first encounter 

 of any white man with the dreaded Mantatee horde — rendered so 

 terrible by rumour. A few miles from Lithako, he says, he saw "sure 

 enough, marching an immense black mass in the \'alle3' below us and 

 pushing on towards the river, we saw that they had not perceived us 

 by their continuing their course, trampling into blackness the gjassy 

 meadows as they passed." Retreating from the hill on which they 

 stood, lest they should be surrounded, Tliompson and his single 

 Hottentot companion "had scarcely proceeded five hundred yards 

 upon the plains," he says, "when looking back we saw the height we 

 had just left occupied by a crowd of the enemy. The cunning rascals 

 had come unperceived up a ravine, and if we had not started off the 

 instant we did we should have been surrounded before we could ha\e 

 noticed theii- advance." The Mantatecs did not attempt to pursue 

 them further, but stood earnestly ga/ing after the first horsemen these 

 ferocious savages had ever seen. The Appendix to this woi'k contains 

 an excellent sketch, "History of the Kafir liaces." by the Rev. J. 

 Brownlce of the London Mission, containing many details of tlie history, 

 go\'erinnent, manners, language, S:c., of the Ama-Kosa. 



Another Capetown gentleman, Mr. Andrew Steedman, published 

 in 1835 his Wanderiuys and Adventures in the Interior of Southern 



