202 DIVISIONS OF SOUTH AFRICAN FAMILY. Chap. X. 



those tribes which acknowledge Moshesh as their paramount 

 chief; among them we find the Batau, the Baputi, Makolokue, 

 &c, 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. Tins has been doubted, 

 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, Mat- 

 lapatlapa, &c. 



The Bakoni farther north than the Basuto are the Batlou, 

 Baperi, Bapo, and another tribe of Bakuena, Bamosetla, Bania- 

 pela or Balaka, Babiriri, Bapiri, Bahukeng, Batlokua, Baakha- 

 hela, &c. &c. ; the whole of which tribes are favoured with 

 abundance of rain, and, being much attached to agriculture, raise 

 very large quantities 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 influence and law. The Basuto under Moshesh 

 are equally fond of cultivating the soil : the chief labour of 

 hoeing, driving away birds, reaping, and winnowing, falls to the 

 willing arms of the hard-working women ; but, as the men, as 

 well as their wives, as already stated, always work, many have 

 followed the advice of the missionaries, and now use ploughs and 

 oxen, instead of the hoe. 



3rd. The Bakalahari, or western branch of the Bechuana 

 family, consists of Barolong, Bahuratse, Bakuena, Bangwaketse, 

 Bakaa, Bamangwato, Bakurutse, Batauana, Bamatlaro, and Bat- 

 lapi. Among the last the success of missionaries has been 

 greatest. They were an insignificant and filthy people when 

 first discovered ; but, being nearest to the colony, they have had 

 opportunities 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 superiority over the less favoured tribes in the interior to 

 be entirely owing to their own greater wisdom and more intel- 

 lectual development. 



