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WAKLIKB DEMONSTEATION. 
Chap. X. 
A Batoka hoe, 
corn or dnraj ground-nuts^ lioeSj spears^ lioney^ canoes^ paddles, 
wooden vessels, tobacco, mutokuane {(Jannahis sativd)^ various 
wild fruits (dried), prepared skins, and ivory. When these 
articles are brought into the kotla, Sekeletu has the honour of 
dividing them among the loungers who usually congregate there, 
A small portion only is reserved for himself. The ivory belongs 
nominally to him too, but this is simply a way of making a fair 
distribution of the profits. The chief sells it only with the 
approbation of his counsellors, and the proceeds are distri¬ 
buted in open day among the people as before. He has the 
choice of everything; but if he is not more liberal to others 
than to himself, he loses in popularity. I have known instances 
in this and other tribes in which individuals aggrieved, because 
they had been overlooked, fled to other chiefs. One discon¬ 
tented person, having fled to Lechulatebe, was encouraged to go 
to a village of the Bap£Ueng, on the river Oho or Tso, and 
abstracted the tribute of ivory thence which ought to have come 
to Sekeletu, This theft enraged the whole of the Makololo, 
because they all felt it to be a personal loss. Some of Lechu- 
latebe’s people having come on a visit to Linyanti, a demonstra¬ 
tion was made, in which about five hundred Makololo, armed, 
went through a mimic fight; the principal warriors pointed their 
spears towards the lake where Lechulatebe lives, and every 
thrust in that direction was answered by all with the shout, 
Hoo! ” while every stab on the ground drew out a simulta¬ 
neous Huzz! ” On these occasions all capable of bearing 
arms, even the old, must turn out at the call. In the time of 
