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sengers ; they sent them to Bokone, to seek a doctor from thence. 

 The doctor came, when my grandfather, Lebaka,* was a boy 

 herding cattle — yet a chief, although he was still herding among 

 the Dikonyela (regiment). They anointed a stick with medicine, 

 then they threw it into the veld. When he (L.) came and jumped 

 over the stick — he went mad. They were scattered when the chief 

 was mad ; some came through when they came hither to Moshesh, 

 other remained in Bokone, others at Dikonyeleng. 



These Batlokoa had special regiment names : Maphatsoe (No. 

 14), Maroala (No. 12), Masiu, Matsoetetsi (Lebaka's brother, was 

 called after his grandfather, as often, and as in Greece) ; Maisaisane 

 (v. No. 13), Mats'oara (Nkhahle's), Machesa (No. 11) about 1768, 

 Matlatsa circumcised about 1805 probably; Likonyela of 

 Sekonyela, 1821; and Mahana about the same time; and Matina 

 before 1863, probably. 



FURTHER BAKOENA PRAISES. 

 XVIII. 



Of Sello. 



The "cry" of the Mathiba regiment of Ma-ratenku and Tsotele- 

 (or Ma-linku, or linko, and Tsotelo). 

 N.B. — Sello means a cry, and Tsotelo was his father's name. 



XIX. 



Of Malane, His Son. 



Khongoana e tsholohali ea mathaha 

 Khongoana e ka mpuru Malane. 



The big brown cow of the Canary regiment 

 Is like the conqueror Malane. 



XX. 



Of Namanyane (Son of Malane, and Elder Brother 

 of Ngaka). 



Sehoyanana sa MaMohatseli, 



mohla se hapang letlole, 



se hapa ts'oana e fine kharatsa(na) holimolimo, 



thabeng Hlohloloane bo hloile batho, ho fina kharatsa(na). 



* Actually his grandfather's maternal grandfather. 



