1 88 THE SOUTH AFRICAN FAMILY. 



who have various subdivisions, as Makatla, Bamakakana, 

 Matlapatlapa, &c. 



The Bakoni farther north than the Basuto are the 

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

 Bamosetla, Bamapela or Balaka, Babiriri, Bapiri, Bahu- 

 keng, Batlokua, Baakhahela, &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, Bahurutse, Bakuena, Bang- 

 waketse, Bakaa, Bamangwato, Bakurutse, Batauana, 

 Bamatlaro, and Batlapi. 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 intellectual development. 



CHAPTER XI. 



Having waited a month at Linyanti (lat. 18 17 20 // S., 

 long. 23 50' 9/ E.), we again departed, for the purpose of 

 ascending the river from Shesheke (lat. iy° 31' 38" S., 

 Ioilsl. 2£° 13' E.). To the Barotse country, the capital of 



