304 P.AXTU PIIILOL()t;V AXl) I'.AXTU LIFE. 



Countries by Anglo-Saxon times. ()f those we found among' 

 the Bantu there was the wild-ox only, for bison, which we 

 g"et back from Pliny's Latin, was only the A.S. weosend. The 

 snake too we had (snacan, to creep, cf. snail); and then we 

 come to the small fry, the rat and mouse (Idg. MEUS, steal), 

 without the cat, still " walking on its wild lone," as Kipling" 

 says, elsewhere, but domesticated in the East (see Herod, and 

 his sacred cats of Egypt). Bull, ox, cow, steer are good Eng- 

 lish, the last three with long Aryan descent and cousinship. 

 Of the other domesticates, dog and its feminine are English, 

 hound also Aryan, cf. canis, kvwv. The Picts had goats, 

 Kelts neither goat nor swine, but buck is good English, goat 

 (haedus) at least European, and pig is English, swine Aryan; 

 sheep and ram are Teutonic, but ewe is Aryan (cf. ovis, 

 Skt. avi). ( )f the rest named by the Ur-Bantu, locust, tortoise 

 are Latin (turtle though Portuguese), monkey is slang Italian 

 (though ape is English), elephant and panther are probably 

 Hebrew and Sanskrit respectively. The rest are from the 

 Greeks, great travellers as some of them were : crocodile, 

 hippo, antelope (hyi^oXol). The ostrich is the big bird 

 {(TTpovBcc) as the sparrow {rrrpovtiiay) is the little one. Par- 

 tridge is also (ireek. Of all the wild beasts the Bantu had to 

 meet or flee, we have known the buffalo only; the names for 

 hippo, panther, elephant, crocodile, hyena we have merely bor- 

 rowed, as also lion, which oddly does not occur in Prof. Mein- 

 hof's list. We have, however, to add bear and wolf (Arvan 

 type WELOOS from WELQ, to tear). 



To pass from the earliest stages of their history to the pas- 

 toral stag'e. an interesting- word gives us the cue to the manner 

 of that transition. The word comes from an unexpected 

 quarter; it means young woman: the gentler sex -has pro- 

 verbially a very great share in the movements of the world, 

 from Eve in Eden downwards, and " Cherchez la fenune " is 

 applicable here. The etymology of Zulu intombi I have men- 

 tioned elsewhere; the Suto word is different, moructsana. Now 

 Suto is a dialect of that group which Prof. Meinhof thinks 

 closest in many ways to Ur-Bantu. and vjia in Suto is to get 

 rich, to earn things, especially cattle; for its original Bantu 

 form, TUGA. means to tame, and so takes one back to the 

 days when a bridegroom had, like Admetus for Alcestis, to 

 tame wild animals for the bride. Hence the girl could be called 

 mo-ru-etsa-na, or the little person who makes a man to tame 

 wild cattle for her bride-price — a beautiful name, you will 

 allow, of a great force at a great moment in a race's budding 

 life. 



By analysing" the vowels and consonants of Sesuto, one 

 may calculate the number of possible .syllables used in the lan- 

 guage, by eliminating those tabulated below, which do not, it 

 seems, occur. The nine usual spirants and four nasals, plus 

 the psh and pj with their nasals, and the remaining" momen- 

 taries with their nasals, aspirates and nasals aspirated, gives a 

 total of 41 consonants. Multiplying" by ten, the number of the 

 vowels, and adding the twelve rare svllables. and subtracting 



