SESUTO PRAISES. 



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Of Tseko Ntsane, Moshesh's Grandson. 



Complete the Regiment of the Hyenas : 



The tiny hornless ox is the mate of Ramonehela. 



Ntsane, do not go beyond Moshesh : 



Moshesh is a cow : we get the milk. 



The defender of Leshoboro's* mother (Matete) 



Saw a man with a club (? gunstock), he hit him; 



Before the owl regiment there blazed a flame, 



A blaze mingled with lead. (War of Sequiti, 1865-7). 



Mate of Masenkane, you must send — 



Send to Setho and Sofonia (Ntsane's brothers) : 



Say: "That little white man who you see there — 



You must go and hold him till I come, — 



I, the old man (Umdala, Xosa) of the drifts 



Of Ntsane's and Sek bony ana's folk." 



Hef goes about the mountain, even at night, 



The runner of Nthakhi's and Malefane's people: 



He has gone out by Taoana's pass — 



Even there he fears the chief Letsie. 



* Leshoboro was the son of Mayara and Matete: Mayara and Ntsane 

 (father of Tseko) were two of .Moshesh's sons. Ramaneela or 

 Lesuoana was son of Moshesh's brother, Makhabane. 



i Probably Ntsane: Sekhonyana is Nehemiah, son of Moshesh. 



III. 

 TSA MOTHEBESOANE. 



U Thebe, Lenls'a, u thebe : 

 U tyeke, u thebe-nalana 

 ea ho hlomella mokhele. 



Of Mothebesoane, Uncle of Moshesh. 



You are a shield, Lents' a, a shield : 



Dance: you are a white and red shield (of cowskin), 



Supporting the chief's banner. 



(Really a tufa, like S. Edwin's, in Bede.) 



IV. 

 TSA JONATHANE. 



Sekoakoabela-sa-linare-talla 



oa boMaria, mor 'a Mamosa-kharapana, 



molalla-Mokapana le Mahetlana, 



