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A Batoka hoe. 



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

 wooden vessels, tobacco, mutokuane [Cannabis sativa), various 

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

 articles are brought into the kotla, Sekeletu has the honour of 

 dividing them among the loungers who usually congregate there. 

 A small portion only is reserved for himself. The ivory belongs 

 nominally to him too, but tins is simply a way of making a fair 

 distribution of the profits. The chief sells it only with the 

 approbation of Ins counsellors, and the proceeds are distri- 

 buted in open day among the people as before. He has the 

 choice of everytlung; 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 winch individuals aggrieved, because 

 they had been overlooked, fled to other cliiefs. One discon- 

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

 to a village of the Bapalleng, on the river Cho or Tso, and 

 abstracted the tribute of ivory thence which ought to have come 

 to Sekeletu. Tins theft em-aged 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 towards 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 ! " On these occasions all capable of bearing 

 arms, even the old, must turn out at the call. In the time of 



