442 SESUTO PRAISES. 



I. 



TSA MOSHOESHOE. 



[KeJ Mahahanyana oa Ratikoane, 



litelu mmele oa R. : 



lijo li yeoa ka ho mela litelu. 



Ke phiri ea habo Makheme, 

 ke Mahlo-mahahanyana oa Ratikoane : 

 ke ntho ea hae ; ha a okeloe hae, 



o okeloa lithabeng. 



Ke ratilitili oa meropa Mangesimane, 



ke liphaka tse maroba. 



mohla ntoa ea morena Lerotholi le Maama. 



Praises of Moshesh and His House. 



1 am M. (the eruption) of Ratikoane, 



Of Ratikoane's hairy body : 



Food is eaten by growing a beard. 



I am the hyena of Makheme's men, 



The protruding eyes of Ratikoane. 



I am a thing of home; he is not nursed at home, 



But on the mountain. 



I am the throbbing of the English drums, 



I am the wound scars 



In the time of Lerothodi's and Maama 's war. 



II. 

 TSA TSEKO NTSANE. 



Petha lebotha la Maphiri : 



[Sechichachichane] ke thaka Ramonella ( ?) 



Ntsane, O' se ke oa feta Moshoeshoe: 



Moshoeshoe ke khomo, re any a lebese. 



Seripanye sa 'Ma-Leshoboro 



a bona motho, ka tholo a mo putla. 



Pele ho lioli ha tuka khabo, 



ha tuka le lelakabe le kopane le loto. 



Thak'a Masenkane, o an' o romela, 



o romele ho Setho le ho Sofonia : 



o re, Khoanyana leo le le bonang moo,. 



le ee le le ts'oare 



ke be ke fihle, una thal'a-maliboho 



oa bo Ntsane le Sekhonyana. 



Le pota thaba, le bosiu, 



Lekhikha la haboNtbakhi le Malefane 



le tsoile ka la haTaoaua lekbalo 



le tens: le ts'aba morena Letsie. 



