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" We are Englishmen." Most other tribes are known by the 

 terms applied to them by strangers only, as the Caffres, Hotten- 

 tots, and Bushmen. The Bechuanas alone use the term to them- 

 selves as a generic one for the whole nation. They have ma- 

 naged also to give a comprehensive name to the whites, viz. 

 Makoa, though they cannot explain the derivation of it any 

 more than of their own. It seems to mean " handsome," from 

 the manner in which they use it to indicate beauty, but there is 

 a word so very like it, meaning " infirm," or " weak," that Bur- 

 chell's conjecture is probably the right one. " The different Hot- 

 tentot tribes were known by names terminating in hua, which 

 means ' man,' and the Bechuanas simply added the prefix Ma 

 — denoting a nation :" they themselves were first known as Bri- 

 quas or " goat-men." The language of the Bechuanas is termed 

 Sichuana ; that of the whites (or Makoa) is called Sekoa. 



The Makololo, or Basuto, have carried their powers of gene- 

 ralization still farther, and arranged the other parts of the same 

 great family of South Africans into three divisions : 1st. The 

 Matebele, or Makonkobi — the Caffre family living on the eastern 

 side of the country ; 2nd. The Bakoni, or Basuto ; and 3rd. the 

 Bakalahari, or Bechuanas, living in the central parts, which includes 

 all those tribes living in or adjacent to the great Kalahari Desert. 



1st. The Caffres are divided by themselves into various sub- 

 divisions, as Amakosa, Amapanda, and other well-known titles. 

 They consider the name Caffre as an insulting epithet. 



The Zulus of Natal belong to the same family, and they are 

 as famed for their honesty, as their brethren who live adjacent to 

 our colonial frontier are renowned for cattle-lifting. The Re- 

 corder of Natal declared of them, that history does not present 

 another instance in which so much security for life and property 

 has been enjoyed, as has been experienced during the whole 

 period of English occupation by ten thousand colonists in the 

 midst of one hundred thousand Zulus. 



The Matebele of Mosilikatse, living a short distance south of 

 the Zambesi, and other tribes living a little south of Tete and 

 Senna, are members of this same family. They are not known 

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

 progress north too, until Sebituane pushed his conquests farther. 



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



