452 SESUTO PRAISES. 



The feeble cripple of Mamohatsedi, 

 When he seizes on the prey (fat, smear), 

 lie seizes the black cow adorned with a crest above, 

 Upon Mount Clocolan have men swarmed up to fasten on that 

 crest. 



Recollections of a Centenarian. 



Motinatina said : When they left Ntsoananatsatsi, the Bat- 

 lokoa came and fought Moshesh at Buthabuthe (1824). When 

 they had scattered Moshesh, he went to Thaba Bosiu, and then 

 Sekonyela came here to Tsikoane and went up into that mountain: 

 the Bakoena of Marabeng and Mokhitle went and swarmed up 

 Joalaboholo, so Sekonyela, went and scattered Mokhitle there. 

 The latter went to Moshesh and took refuge there. Sekonyela 

 remained and built and settled at Joalaboholo. Molapo quarrelled 

 with Letsie at Makhoarane, both claiming a leopard; one refused 

 to leave it, saying it was his. Then Moshesh takes Molapo and 

 gives him to Sekonyela. The latter 's son, father of Ledingoana, 

 burnt the house of Kadi : Moshesh and Seyonyela quarrelled and 

 fought for ten years, and then in the twelfth year (1853) Moshesh 

 scattered Sekonyela, and this land went back into Moshesh f s power. 

 He brought Molapo hither, as it already belonged to him. 



Moshesh quarrelled with the Boers in the days of Senekal 

 (1858). Afterwards Brandt came with the coloured folk and 

 Constable,* who were to come and fight Moshesh in the war of 

 Seqiti('66ff). Moshesh fought with the Boers eight years, and then 

 came peace: there came Wodehouse, Currie and Bowker,* who 

 were to come and fight in alliance with the Boers ; they separated, 

 and there came peace. 



It is then the English came and made boundaries at the 

 Caledon, cutting themselves off from the Boers. They made boun- 

 daries at Caledon. This whole land of the Orange Free State ia 

 the land of Moshesh: Moshesh's boundary was the Vaal ; it is 

 no longer so, it is the Boer's now. 



The English quarrelled with the Boers ; then the English 

 called many sorts of black and white men, and so they scattered 

 Paul (Kruger) who* went to the Portuguese. I know that to-day 

 the Queen has also quarrelled with the Germans on the sea! 



From the Days of Childhood, j 



When Moshesh went to Kobo's place, Khosij was wounded 

 there. Then the Batlokoa remained and attacked, seizing Mamo- 



* The Suto pronunciation of these names is quaint: Kos-tabole, Kuta- 



usi, Kori, Bokoro. 

 t This informant with his son Letina, both got their names from the 



Tina River, near the Tsitsa in Pondonisiland. The son was born 



just after his father's return from his campaign in those parts 



under Poshodi, Moshesh's younger brother (1861). 

 X Khosi when he praises himself says : — 



I am the hero of Kobetsane of the Makhila regiment. 



(He also speared the Xosas yonder, i.e., in Cape Colony.) 



He said : I have pierced you, not seeing you. 



