Sesuto and Sechwana Praises. 
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Se dule se nakaletse selemela, 
S'wa godimo, soo Kgosidintsi 
Le Seadinwana a Mocwasele : 
Se o'le, go sa ntse go itebetswe, 
Fha gare ga mebilana ea batho 
Ea ga Mangwato le ea Bokalaka. 
Le-fhera-batho la boKgabo le 
Kgakge, 
La dikgosi : dikgosi boMotswane a 
Mmatle 
Bokgaimena la Legoyane : 
Nfhere wa dipholoholo le batho, 
0 kile o kile wa patika boTlhankane. 
Bagamangwato, lo tlhasetswe eng ? 
Lo tseneletswe ke'ng ? 
Maemong lo tseneletswe ? 
Ke le-tlhanega batho, ke kolwane la 
Matlhorangwe : 
Sebele ke lekatapitse la (? loo) 
Tumagole : 
Ke tlhorunwa ea boKgari, a Sechele. 
0 e-tla, le-bola[e]a, le go rebola, wa 
ga Sechele : 
0 e-tla : a bola[e]a, a ba a lesa : 
Ke ra[e]a, gobo a lesitse Moatswae, 
A lesitse MorwaKgomo, a reboga. 
Kwena, mogolole, ke ea go leboga, 
Ka go bolaea le go rebola : 
Kgosi o jafhile seng, wa lesa Ma- 
thubi ? 
Kgosi e busa ka bana ba merafhe ! 
No. 15. Another Praise of Sebel 
Mochacha mogakatsa-mala, 
More mojewa-o-botlhoko : 
0 ka jewa ke monna a sa o itse, 
0 ka mo tshwara, wa mo kgobola 
mmele, 
mere ea tla ea fela, re ee pele ; 
* Is this passage connected 
The Pleiads are out and shine, 
They fall from above, they are on 
K.'s side, 
On Seadingwana's, Mocwasele's 
daughter : 
They fell unexpected * 
Among the streets of men 
In Mangwato and Karangaland. 
The disappointer of Kgabo and 
Kgakge's men, 
Of the chiefs, the chiefs of the party 
of Motshwane, Mmatle' sons, 
Of Kgaimena and Legojane ; 
One who broke both beasts and men, 
and once pressed the folk of 
Tlhankane. 
0 ye Mangwatos, what attacked you? 
Ye were approached by what % 
In your steads invaded ? 
'Tis the Leaver-of-men-dead, 'tis 
the youth of the man that sits 
but little. 
S. is a lethubaniwa of Tumagole, 
He is the rained-on grass of Kgari's 
men (son of Sechele). 
He comes, the slayer, yet to deliver 
even Sechele's son : 
He comes : he slew, again he spared. 
1 say it, in that he spared Moatswae 
(a Mongwato), 
He spared Moatswae (son of K.), and 
delivered him. 
Kwena, my elder brother, I thank 
thee, 
For slaying and for sparing ! 
How well didst thou, chief, when 
thou sparedst M. 
The Chief rules by the sons of the 
nations (spared by him). 
Bitter herb, which poisoneth within, 
Physick bitter in the taking : 
Should it be eaten by one unknowing, 
It should seize him, bruising his 
body, 
And medicine would not suffice, 
though to hand, 
with Donati's comet, 1858-9 ? 
