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one asks : " A rupisitswe ke mang ? " or " A rupisitse mang ? " (i.e. they 
were circumcised by, or circumcised, whom ?), and so builds up or checks 
the list of successive mephato. 
Lists 1-14 of the Transvaal tribes very rarely have the composite names 
which are characteristic of 15-25, those of Bechuanaland, showing a different 
strain of cultural borrowing where not of original descent. 
Index to Regiment Names of Tribes of Transvaal and 
b e ch wan aland . 
ma-abaNKwe, dividing the sheep, 22. 
abaNtwa, ordering the host, 20. 
alola, removers (intrans.), 15 ; alosa, do. (trans.), 25. 
abaKgomo, sharing the cattle, 19, 23-25. 
aparaNkwe, wearing leopard (skins), 8, 17. 
apaPula, spreading the rain, 25. 
bapoga, outstretched, erect (? aba Phoha, distributing feathers), 15. 
betlwana, those cut or chipped (i.e. in circumcision), 17. 
bitsi, callers, 1, 4. 
butswane, the ripe ones, 11. 
busa, turning back (the enemy), 24 f. 
betla-Kgang, fashioning strife, 23. 
chologa (for thologa, q.v.), 23. 
cecele, clever (for tsele-tsele), 8*, 9*. 
chedi, gushers, 13. 
chama, undaunted, 8, 17. 
ea-ka-Kgang, going with strife, 18, 20. 
ea-ka-Kgosi, going with the chief, 23. 
ea-ka-Thata,, going with strength, 17-19, 21. 
ea-ka-Thebe, going with a shield, 19, 24. 
emelwa, championed, 15 (or waited for, because kept long un circumcised). 
ea-ka-Ntwa, going with a host, 18-21. 
ea-ka Pula, going with rain, 18 f. 
fatlha, defenders, 8, 12. 
fatshwa, dappled cattle, 15 (or phatshwa). 
fatshwana (dim. of above), 8*. 
firi, hyenas, 8, 16, 17 (hiri). 
fitlha-Kgosi, buriers of the chief, dying during rites, 18 (of Chief 
Ikaneng), 20 (Gropane), 26 (Thapuse). 
folosa, those that bring down, 15. 
fulaca, turners (of the enemy), 1. 
fenya, defenders, 24 ? f. ; a Ramphelana (of R. = Bogacwi, chief of 
regt.), 8. 
fenyaKgosi, chief's bodyguard, 21. 
fikang, making fast, 26. 
ga-e-Kgomo, no cattle, 22 (27) ; gaenaKgang, having no strife, 22. 
lo-gaga, the cave (collective name of regiment), 19, 23. 
gata, tramplers, 8, 16 1, 24 f. 
gasa, scatterers, 9 f., 13, 24. 
gata-Kgomo, treading on cattle, 19, 22 f. 
