THE TRADITION OF RA LOLO. ()I 



tell the Paramount Chief their deed of bravery, having killed a 

 Chief, bringing the shield, arms and beads of Mohube there. 

 Our young men waylaid these messengers and killed them at the 

 Steelpoort Drift (Fort Burgers). One of the enemy escape-! 

 and went to the Paramount Chief at Fighting Hill, to complain 

 We also had already sent to complain, but the ba-Mongatana 

 only laughed at our Chief being killed. The ba-Mongatana sent 

 i. big Impi, because their old subjects had been killed. It crossed 

 the Steelpoort. The fight began near our home. It was day- 

 light, and the fight lasted only a short time. We got the best ofj 

 it. We did not follow them to their home, but took many of 

 their cattle-herds. We turned back from the Monpetsi River 

 (Clapham). Our Chief now was Mampuru, the third son o' 

 Moukangoe. who was still alive. This Mampuru was the Chief 

 from whom the Magakale tribe came. Then we went and 

 attacked the Ba-Gakomane. The man who had killed Mohube 

 was killed by Sethabalake, of the Kgoro Bogopa. Those of the 

 Gakomana who were left, and had fled far away, later 

 sent a girl as peace-offering, and built again near their old kraal. 

 The Mongatana sent as peace-offering the son of the Paramount 

 Chief. Magosi. Mampuru gave this man his daughter Nthane 

 as a wife. Both went home to Fighting Hill, and there was 

 peace. Mampuru regarded himself only as acting Chief, and 

 brought up Moroamotshe. Mohube's son, as real heir, together 

 with his own son Xthobeng. These two were Mampuru's hght- 

 ing generals in all his expeditions, which were many. There 

 was a Chief Mamaile (on Groot Hoek), who, although in some 

 way of the same race as ba-Mongatana, made himself indepen- 

 dent of both, the Maroteng (Sekukuni's tribe) and the Mon- 

 gatana. Against him Mampuru sent his first Impi. He him- 

 self went with his son and nephew. Mamaile in his stronghold 

 (even now a landmark) was. however, too much for Mampuru. 

 He had to return unsuccessful. Then Manoamagoadi, a man of 

 Mampuru's, went to Mamaile, telling him that the cattle of ba- 

 Maila (a tribe at the Western base of the Lola Mountain 

 ba-bine-tlou) were near by at Suale (Maandags Hoek). 

 Mamaile went with his men to take them. Mampuru was in 

 ambush on his road, waiting for him. When Mamaile came. 

 Mampuru killed him and burnt his kraal, and took his people 

 with him. 



Then Mampuru went to Mmopong, to fight the ba-Man 

 ganeng. He was very successful in this raid. The rest of that 

 tribe, their Chief being Mangane. gave a girl to Mampuru as 

 peace-offering. Then Mampuru went to attack the Bakoni on 

 the other side of Lydenburg. But the stronghold had only one 

 entrance, which was successfully defended by-the enemy. A 

 man of the Bakoni from whom his people had taken his wife, 

 went out of the stronghold in the night, to Mampuru, and 

 promised him to show him a feasible entrance to the stronghold 



