446 SESUTO PRAISES. 



VIII. 



Of Peter Makhobotloaxe, Also. 



Ke mosehlanyane oa Motsoakhunoane : 

 ts'ehla, apola, r'o bone mahlong. 



I am the little light-skinned son of Motsoakhunoane : 

 Tawny one (ie., lion), uncover that we may look in your eyes 



IX. 

 TSA NYAPHISI. 



Mor' a Phakoe h'a boleloa ke batho : 



Tintinyane Ramesi a thunya, 



mosi O' thunya koana litlhomoleng, 



moritele oa Pali a ret[h]ela koana haRamakhula. 



Manqotya le Mantoseng, 



ha le hana ho fepa Tliipa-ea-setala e ote, 



e tie e'n'e tsebo ho poma makhotla a batho, 



Potyo-lerumo-le-hlabile-mokhosi, 



hlabela u etse mokhosi 



a utloe a le joaleng. 



Maphuthixg Praises of Nyaphisi. 



Nyaphisi, son of Phakoe, boast not thyself: 



A man is fine when so called by others. 



Grass warbler, father of gunsmoke : 



Smoke there among the guns (Tlhobolo). 



Blusher ( ?Morutheli) of Padi's line, he blushes there at Pama- 



khula's. 

 Manqotya and Mantoseng (wives of Nyaphisi), 

 If you fail to feed Knife-of-the-Stall (a horse), he gets thin, 

 [So feed him] that he may still know how to cut through the ranks 



of men. 

 'Scape-spear (phochoha) — which-raises-the-alarm, 

 Raise thou the alarm, while they are at the beer. 



X. 

 TSA PITA. 



Marumo a ja li-nonne, Pita oa Nyaphisi, 

 li nonne li le mafura : 

 letlaka ntlohele, ke ee hae, 

 ke e'o bona liotloana hae, 

 liotloana mots'egare li ba ntle. 

 Thak'a ngoan'a Ntloi a kalla ts'oene, 



