i38 DIVISIONS OF SOUTH AFRICAN FAMILY. Chap. X. 



portions of this great family of South Africans in 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, 

 inhabiting the central parts, which includes all the tribes 

 living in or adjacent to the great Kalahari Desert. 



1st. The Caifres are subdivided into various groups, as 

 Amakosa, Amapanda, and other well-known titles. They 

 consider the name Caffre as an insulting epithet. 



The Zulus of Natal belong to this compartment, and are as 

 famed for their honesty, as their brethren who live adjacent 

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

 Recorder of Natal declared, that history does not present 

 another instance in which so much security for life and 

 property has been enjoyed as during the whole period of 

 English occupation by ten thousand colonists in the midst of 

 one hundred thousand Zulus. 



(29) The Matebele of Mosilikatse, who live a short distance 

 south of the Zambesi, and other tribes who live a little south 

 of Tete and Senna, are also members of this family. They 

 are not known beyond the Zambesi river, which was the limit 

 of the Bechuana progress north until Sebituane pushed his 

 conquests farther. 



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



(30) all the 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 

 believed by those who have carefully sifted the evidence to 

 have been at one time guilty of cannibalism. They ascribe 

 the abandonment of the practice to Moshesh having provided 

 them with cattle. They are called Marimo and Mayabathu, 

 men-eaters, by the rest of the Basuto. 



The Bakoni farther north than the Basuto are the Batlou, 

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

 Bamapela or Balaka, Babiriri, Bapiri, Bahukeng, Batlokua, 

 Baakhahela, &c. &c. The whole of these tribes, both Basuto 

 and Bakoni, are much attached to agriculture, and raise large 

 quantities of grain. It is on their industry that the distant 

 Boers revel in slothful abundance. The chief toil of hoeing, 

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



