the court HERALD 
9 “ 
Tho court herald, an old man who occupiod the post also 
In Sobituano’fl time, stood up, and after some antics, such 
as leaping, and shouting at tho top ot his voice, roarod out 
some adulatory sentences, as, “ Don't I seo tho whito man 7 
Don’t I seo tho comrade of Scbituano ? Don’t I soo tho 
father of Sekolctu “ Wo want sleep.”— “ Givo your son 
sloop, my lord,” &c. &c. Tho perquisites of this man are 
the beads of all tho cattle slaughtered by tho chief, and ho 
even takes a share of tho tribute before it is distributed 
and taken out of tho kotla. Ho is expected to utter all th* 
proclamations, call assemblies, keep tho kotla clean, and 
tho firo burning every evening, and whon a person is 
executed in public he drags away the body. 
I found Sckclctu a young man of eighteen years of ago, 
of that dark yellow or coffcc-and-milk color of which tho 
Makololo are so proud, because it distinguishes thorn 
considerably from tho black tribes on tho rivers. Ho is 
about five feet seven in height, and noithor so good-looking 
nor of so much ability as his father was, but is equally 
friendly to tho English. Scbituano installed his daughter 
Mamochisiinc into the chieftainship long beforo Ids death, 
but, with all his acuteness, the idea of her having a hus- 
band who should not be her lord did not seom to enter his 
mind. Ho wishod to mako her his successor, probably it 
imitation of somo of tho nogro tribes with whom ho had 
come into contact: but, being of tho Bechuana raco, he 
could not look upon tho husband except as tho woman s 
lordj so ho told her all tho men wero hers, — sho might 
take any ono, but ought to keep nono. In fact, ho thought 
sho might do with tho men what ho could do with the 
women ; but these men had othor wives ; and, according 
to a saying in tho country, “tho tongues of women can- 
not bo governed,” they made her miserable by their re- 
marks. Ono man whom sho choso was even called her wife, 
and her son tho child of Mamochisane’s wife; but the ar- 
rangement was so distasteful to Mamochisano herself that, 
as soon as Sebituane died, sho said sho never would consent 
