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DIVISIONS OF SOUTH AFEICAN FAMILY. 
Chap. X. 
those tribes which acknowledge Moshesh as their paramount 
chief; among them we find the Batau, the Baputi, Makolokne, 
&c., and some mountaineers on the range Maluti, who are be¬ 
lieved by those who have carefully sifted the evidence, to have 
been at one time guilty of cannibalism. This has been doubted, 
but their songs admit the fact to this day, and they ascribe 
their having left off the odious practice of entrapping human 
prey, to Moshesh having given them cattle. They are called 
Marimo and Mayabathu, men-eaters, by the rest of the Basuto, 
who have various subdivisions, as Makatla, Bamakakana, Mat- 
lapatlapa, &c. 
The Bakoni farther north than the Basuto are the Batlou, 
Baperi, Bap5, and another tribe of Bakuena, Bamosetla, Bama- 
pela or Balaka, Babiriri, Bapiri, Bahukeng, Batlolma, Baaklia- 
hela, &c. &c.; the whole of which tribes are favoured with 
abundance of rain, and, being much attached to agriculture, raise 
very large quantities of grain. It is on their industry that the 
more distant Boers revel in slotliful abundance, and follow their 
slave-hunting and cattle-stealing propensities quite beyond the 
range of English influence and law. The Basuto under Moshesh 
are equally fond of cultivating the soil: the chief labour of 
hoeing, driving away birds, reaping, and winnowing, falls to the 
billing arms of the hard-working women; but, as the men, as 
well as their wives, as already stated, always work, many have 
followed the advice of the missionaries, and now use ploughs and 
oxen, instead of the hoe. 
3rd. The Bakalahari, or western branch of the Bechuana 
family, consists of Barolong, Bahurutse, Bakuena, Bangwaketse, 
Bakaa, Bamangwato, Bakurutse, Batauana, Bamatlaro, and Bat- 
lapi. Among the last the success of missionaries has been 
greatest. They were an insignificant and filthy people when 
first discovered; but, being nearest to the colony, they have had 
opportunities of trading; and the long-continued peace they have 
enjoyed, through the influence of religious teaching, has enabled 
them to amass great numbers of cattle. The young, however, 
who do not realize their former degradation, often consider their 
present superiority over the less favoured tribes in the interior to 
be entirely owing to their own greater wisdom and more intel¬ 
lectual development. 
