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NAMES OF THE BICHUANA NATIONS. 
dwellings, excepting in their towns, all others being merely tem- 
porary grazing-stations ; they are often in a state of warfare with each 
other, for the sake of plunder, on pretence of mutual retaliation for 
past robberies, their real object being always the acquisition of 
cattle ; the corn which they cultivate is a species of * Indian millet 
their tradings are conducted commonly on the principle of barter ; 
beads are the principal medium through which they effect exchanges 
of goods ; and, they are governed by hereditary chiefs whose autho- 
rity is absolute, although more frequently tempered by general 
opinion, and still possessing much of a patriarchal nature. 
The principal nations of which I could procure any account from 
the natives, were; — eastward from Litakun, the Tdmmakas or 
BatdmmakaSf (Red people) called by the Klaarwater Hottentots, 
Roode Kaffers (Red Caffres). Their houses are said to be in part 
formed like those of the Koras, and their chief town to be but 
small: — Kojds (Koias) or Lukojds, farther eastward, of which 
little is known : — north-eastward, the Barolungs, consisting of two 
divisions, the nearer called Marruwonnds under a chief named 
Massao, stationed on the Molappo or Maloppo river ; and the farther 
division called Md'ibu, under Makrakki : — the Nudkketsies, whose 
chief-town, larger than Litakun, is situated on a hill and governed 
by a chief named Makkaba, whose country produces the copper ore 
which is there manufactured: — the Murutzies, (sometimes called 
Mahutzi) in a direction more eastward than the Nuakketsies : — be- 
yond these, there is said to be a large river flowing to the southeast- 
ward, and very probably discharging its waters into Delagoa bay ; 
the river bearing the name of Mdkdtta, and the nation who dwell on 
the other side of it, that of Bamdkdtta : — the Mdkzmin or Bamdk- 
wiin^ said to be a numerous and more civilized tribe with respect to 
some few arts, and are the most northerly of whom I could obtain any 
intelligence: — the Kdi^rikarri or Bakdrrikarn, lying far to the west- 
ward of these last, and to the northwestward of Litakun ; a few of 
the more southern part of this tribe, and the whole of the following, 
acknowledging Mattivi as their Chief : — and lastly ; the Bamuchdrs 
and the Mokdrrdquas, who inhabit the town of Patani, and the 
neighbouring country to the westward. 
