Sesuto and Sechwana Praises. 
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No. 1. Lethole's song was kindly supplied to me by Mr. J. C. Macgregor, 
C.M.G., Eesident Commissioner of Bechwanaland, when A.C. of Leribe. 
It runs as follows : — 
Lethole le thunyang, 
Le thunyang khomong tsa batho, 
La re ho thunya, la apesa pelesa. 
Hlabeli, tlola Eakhabane a bone ; 
A bone, ha ho qhalangwa menaila. 
Khwahlan'a maroba 
Mokhaloli-qenatsan'a maroba, 
Mokhaloli ba o hlobile sesela, 
0 ts'o tjekela o le feela. 
Hlabeli tswetse ea se itja mohlana. 
Bashanyana ba llela sekaqa. 
Ha 11a Posho le Lenyolosa. 
Mohlankana oa qhoba nku kaletolo, 
Hlabeli, 
Khomo e tshwana ea ngwan'a 
Lechesa 
E tsamaile ea sehlaka matsika 
Mor'a Lechesa kolobe li ea jana, 
Kolobe li ea jana Bolaoaneng, 
Ka mona ka ha likubu matshaneng. 
Lefuma (-o ?) le kwana haMahemane, 
Ha rwesa mekoli khomo e tehehali ; 
Thokwana ea rwala shwahla mola- 
leng. 
L. the Dust (archaic for Lerole), 
which shoots up among people's 
cattle, 
when it shoots up, it covers the 
H. (i.e. L.) leap, that B,. may see, 
may see when the vanguard have 
been dispersed. 
A strong man of the maroba (L.'s 
circumcision mates). 
M. (a bird white and black) [tail ; 
you singing bird, they pulled off your 
you sing without it (i.e. have no 
pride). 
H. as a cow just calved ate the after- 
birth. 
the boys cried for a lump of it, 
there cried P. and L. 
the young lad H. drives sheep by the 
lightning, 
the black cow of Lechesa's child 
went and beat the M. (i.e. Maroba ?) 
Son of L. the pigs eat each other. 
They eat each other at B., 
Here in these little lakes in the 
hippos' place. 
Poverty (? wealth) is at M.'s : 
Bunches of beads are tied on a cow 
(? a maiden). 
The fawn-coloured cow had plenty 
(of beads) on her neck. 
To end the Sesuto part of my paper, I give No. 2, an ordinary impro- 
visation of a South Mosuto boy praising himself (Mogapunyana of 
Vereeniging, son of Masopha, a Motloung of Basutoland) : 
I am the brindled one of Ramatsikitlinyane, 
The child of the wife of Khwali : 
Take the ox's horn, and pluck it earthward, 
Let the lads run with it. 
They said : " The black kine are not lean, 
But in summer they trouble us ever." 
I picked the bat off the willow tree, 
I trod in a slippery place and slid : 
I came forth carrying the men's shields in a pile : 
