Sesuto and Sechwana Praises. 
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No. 5. I add the praise of Pheto, grandfather of Kgamanyane : 
Ke Kamopyane a baKgatla, 
ke tshukulu ea ga Mpheterl : ke erne. 
Pheto a Molefe, ke ratwe ke batho. 
(ke ratwa ke mme Moliane) : 
ke tshukulu ea ga Mpheteri, ke erne. 
Ge le sa mphete, le-tlhola-lillo, 
ke tlholla bomaeno go beolwa. 
I am R. of the Bakgatla, 
the rhinoceros of Mpheteng, let me 
be ! 
P. son of Molefe, I am loved by none 
(save by my mother M.). 
I am the rhinoceros of Mpheteng. 
Let me be ; if you do not pass me 
by, bringer of lamentation. 
I do make your mothers to be shorn 
for grief. 
The last line refers to the quaint custom by which bereaved women 
shave the head, as in Bible times, except for a tuft or tasselling of hair 
strings from the middle of the crown, having at a short distance the effect 
of a football cap. The Praise concludes : 
Ramopyane, o se be o tshwaetse : R. maybe thou hast made an end 
(of a wounded man). 
kgosi ga e tshwaele, e nna fela : 'Tis not for a chief to do so : he lets 
be: 
(Repeat these two lines, adding ga Raseakanyo =at R.'s place ['tis so]. 
These of Pheto's son Pilane complete the series of three generations : 
No. 6: 
(1) It is Pilane, the rock of the anvil stone, the slippery one : 
Those who touch it will leave their fingers, 
And that Mabine has proved. 
I am Pilane that makes to war (ke P. a malosa) 
The beast of Kopong and the wood of Litlhotlhe. 
(Selo se mo K . . . L.) 
(2) The common Folk are poking at his hole and annoying him : 
The beast has been annoyed by Mmamorogoana of the Mabulisa (vassals 
of the baKgatla). 
He is thrusting forth his head, he pecks savagely, 
And returns to his place Kopong. . . . 
The original runs : 
(1) Ke Pilane, ke tlhapa la ntswe pilwane, ke letlhapa 
le le boreleli Pilane : ba le tshware, ba tla 
tlog[el]a menwana : le tshwerwe ke Mabine, a tloga meno. 
(For the rest, v. Dico, p. 77.) 
(2) Ba lintlha ba nntse ba se gwaisa, se gwaisitswe 
ke Mmamorogwana oa BaMabolisa, se ne se ntsha tlhogo, se ba 
thObonya, se boea se boela kafa Kopon, 
kafa Kopoopoon, kafa Litlhotlhe. Tau makunya a ga 
ba-Phalaphala, etc., as in Mr. Wookey's Dico, p. 78. 
