Chap. X. 
DIVISIONS OF SOUTH AFRICAN FAMILY. 
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We are Englislimen.” Most other tribes are known by the 
terms applied to them by strangers only, as the Caffres, Hotten¬ 
tots, and Buslnnen. The Bechnanas alone use the term to them¬ 
selves as a generic one for the whole nation. They have ma¬ 
naged also to give a comprehensive name to the whites, viz. 
Makoa, though they cannot explain the derivation of it any 
more than of their own. It seems to mean “ handsome,” from 
the manner in which they use it to indicate beauty, but there is 
a word so very like it, meaning “ infirm,” or “ weak,” that Bur- 
chelFs conjecture is probably the right one. “ The different Hot¬ 
tentot tribes were known by names terminating in kua, which 
means ‘ man,’ and the Bechuanas simply added the prefix Ma 
—denoting a nation:” they themselves were first known as Bri- 
quas or goat-men.” The language of the Bechuanas is termed 
Sichuana; that of the whites (or Makoa) is called Sek5a. 
The Makololo, or Basuto, have carried their powers of gene¬ 
ralization still farther, and arranged the other parts of the same 
gTeat family of South Africans into tlrree divisions: 1st. The 
Matebele, or Makonkobi—-the Cafhe family living on the eastern 
side of the country; 2nd. The Bakoni, or Basuto; and 3rd. the 
Bakalahari, or Bechuanas, living in the central parts, wliich includes 
all those tribes living in or adjacent to the great Kalahari Desert. 
1st. The Caffres are divided by themselves into various sub¬ 
divisions, as Amakosa, Amapanda, and other well-known titles. 
They consider the name Caffre as an insulting epithet. 
The Zulus of Natal belong to the same family, and they are 
as famed for their honesty, as their bretlrren who live adjacent to 
our colonial frontier are renowned for cattle-lifting. The Ke- 
corder of Natal declared of them, that history does not present 
another instance in which so much security for life and property 
has been enjoyed, as has been experienced dming the whole 
period of English occupation by ten thousand colonists in the 
midst of one hundred thousand Zulus. 
The Matebele of Mosilikatse, living a short distance south of 
the Zambesi, and other tribes living a little south of Tete and 
Senna, are members of this same family. They are not known 
beyond the Zambesi river. This was the limi t of the Bechuana 
progress north too, until Sebituane pushed his conquests farther. 
2nd. The Bakoni and Basuto division contains in the south all 
