220 DIVISIONS OP SOUTH AFRICAN FAMILY. 



beyond the Zambesi River. This was the limit of the Bechuana 

 progress north too, until Sebituane pushed his conquests farther. 



2d. The Bakoni and Basuto division contains, in the south, all 

 those tribes which acknowledge Moshesh as their paramount 

 chief. Among them we find the Batau, the Baputi, Makolokue, 

 etc., and some mountaineers on the range Maluti, who are be- 

 lieved, by those who have carefully sifted the evidence, to have 

 been at one time guilty of cannibalism. This has been doubt- 

 ed, but their songs admit the fact to this day, and they ascribe 

 their having left off the odious practice of entrapping human prey 

 to Moshesh having given them cattle. They are called Marimo 

 and Mayabathu, men-eaters, by the rest of the Basuto, who have 

 various subdivisions, as Makatla, Bamakakana, Matlapatlapa, etc. 



The Bakoni farther north than the Basuto are the Batlou, Ba- 

 peri, Bapo, and another tribe of Bakuena, Bamosetla, Bamapela or 

 Balaka, Babiriri, Bapiri, Bahukeng, Batlokua, Baakhahela, etc., 

 etc. ; the whole of which tribes are favored with abundance of 

 rain, and, being much attached to agriculture, raise very large quan- 

 tities of grain. It is on their industry that the more distant Boers 

 revel in slothful abundance, and follow their slave-hunting and 

 cattle-stealing propensities quite beyond the range of English in- 

 fluence and law. The Basuto under Moshesh are equally fond of 

 cultivating the soil. The chief labor of hoeing, driving away birds, 

 reaping, and winnowing, falls to the willing arms of the hard-work- 

 ing women ; but as the men, as well as their wives, as already 

 stated, always work, many have followed the advice of the mis- 

 sionaries, and now use plows and oxen instead of the hoe. 



3d. The Bakalahari, or western branch of the Bechuana fami- 

 ly, consists of Barolong, Bahurutse, Bakuena, Bangwaketse, Ba- 

 kaa, Bamangwato, Bakurutse, Batauana, Bamatlaro, and Batlapi. 

 Among the last the success of missionaries has been greatest. 

 They were an insignificant and filthy people when first discover- 

 ed ; but, being nearest to the colony, they have had opportuni- 

 ties of trading ; and the long-continued peace they have enjoyed, 

 through the influence of religious teaching, has enabled them to 

 amass great numbers of cattle. The young, however, who do not 

 realize their former degradation, often consider their present supe- 

 riority over the less-favored tribes in the interior to be entirely 

 owing to their own greater wisdom and more intellectual devel- 

 opment. 



