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kopje, the rear of this fearful cortege being brought 

 up by the last executors of the law. There was no 

 shriek, no cry for mercy. Many witnessed the 

 child-wife being led away to her doom, still she 

 asked not for aid. Brave in heart, and brave in 

 limb, she followed her dread leader without re- 

 sistance. 



On reaching the place of execution she was once 

 more entreated to confess, but again she was equally 

 obdurate. 



Still loth to take the life of one so young, a final 

 appeal was made to her, on which she broke out into 

 a torrent of abuse, charging her executioners with 

 cowardice and fear to take her blood. All means to 

 save her had now failed, and reproach was returned 

 for sympathy, so the powerful knobkeeries of the 

 executioners were dashed upon her head, and in a 

 few minutes life had departed, the body being left 

 to feed the vultures and jackals. 



Whatever may have been the faults or guilt of 

 this unfortunate girl, she met her death in a manner 

 worthy of a heroine, and I doubt if in history, an 

 instance of greater stoicism and resolution can be 

 found than that displayed by this Bechuana belle. 



Cases of wife-beating in this country I never 

 heard of ; in fact, they cannot take place, otherwise, 

 I should have done so. This is not to be accounted 

 for by the introduction of the Christian religion 

 among a small minority, but by an innate knowledge 



