THE SOUTH AFRICAN FAMILY. 1 87 



" The different Hottentot tribes were known by names 

 terminating in kua, which means ' man,' and the Bechuanas 

 simply added the prefix Ma — denoting a nation i " they 

 themselves were first known as Briqnas 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 

 generalization still farther, and arranged the other parts of 

 the same great family of South Africans into three divi- 

 sions : 1st. The Matabele, or Makonkobi — the Caffre 

 family living on the eastern side of the country ; 2nd. The 

 Bakoni, or Basuto ; and 3rd. The Bakalahari, or Bechu- 

 anas, 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 Caflre 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 Recorder 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 Matabele 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 Sebit- 

 uane pushed his conquests further. 



2nd. 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, &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. This 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, 



