216 WARLIKE DEMONSTRATION. 



A Batoka hoe. 



Sekeletu receives tribute from a great number of tribes in corn 

 or dura, ground-nuts, hoes, spears, honey, canoes, paddles, wood- 

 en vessels, tobacco, mutokuane (Cannabis sativa), various wild 

 fruits (dried), prepared skins, and ivory. When these articles are 

 brought into the kotla, Sekeletu has the honor of dividing them 

 among the loungers who usually congregate there. A small 

 portion only is reserved for himself. The ivory belongs nom- 

 inally to him too, but this is simply a way of making a fair dis- 

 tribution of the profits. The chief sells it only with the appro- 

 bation of his counselors, and the proceeds are distributed in 

 open day among the people as before. He has the choice of 

 every thing; but if he is not more liberal to others than to 

 himself, he loses in popularity. I have known instances in this 

 and other tribes in which individuals aggrieved, because they 

 had been overlooked, fled to other chiefs. One discontented 

 person, having fled to Lechulatebe, was encouraged to go to a 

 village of the Bapalleng, on the River Cho or Tso, and ab- 

 stracted the tribute of ivory thence which ought to have come 

 to Sekeletu. This theft enraged the whole of the Makololo, 

 because they all felt it to be a personal loss. Some of Lechu- 

 latebe's people having come on a visit to Linyanti, a demonstra- 

 tion was made, in which about five hundred Makololo, armed, 

 went through a mimic fight ; the principal warriors pointed their 

 spears toward the lake where Lechulatebe lives, and every 

 thrust in that direction was answered by all with the shout, 

 "Hoo!" while every stab on the ground drew out a simulta- 

 neous " Huzz I" On these occasions all capable of bearing 



