APPENDIX 
Westbeech gave me such information as he had gathered with 
regard to the history of the tribes inhabiting the Barotzi Valley. The 
first clear statement out of the chaos existing amongst the ever-warring 
tribes in this country dates from the time immediately previous to the 
invasion of the Barotzi Valley by Sibotwana, when the country was 
inhabited by people who claimed to come from the East and established 
themselves in the Zambesi Valley, by conquest. They subjugated the 
Mabunda, Matotela, and the Magoma tribes then living there under 
the collective name of Barotzi, levying tribute from them all, which 
their successors claim at the present moment. Buled by King Maritela, 
they occupied the country until the arrival of Sibotwana, a ferocious 
Basuto chief, who left his country about 1843, owing to disturbances 
with his brother Moshesh, then king of the Basutos, and came through 
the southern Kalahari with a large following of Moshesh’s malcontents 
mounted on their famous ponies. At Lake Ngami they dispersed the 
people of the lake, called Batauwana, under the regent Machalakiwe, 
took the future king, Letchulatebe, then a boy of nine years old, 
prisoner, and proceeded on their way to the Chobe, via Mababe. 
Letchulatebe managed to escape from his captors, and hid with some 
friendly natives in the reeds, until later he became king of the Batau¬ 
wana. Sibotwana settled on the Chobe with a Mashubia chief called 
Litchuani, who, afraid of Sibotwana’s power, received him in a friendly 
manner. Impelled by the desire for cattle, possessed in great numbers 
by the Batoka eastwards on the Zambesi, Sibotwana successfully raided 
that country, returning with many women and cattle to Litchuani on 
the Chobe, and then, actuated by the same motive, raided the Barotzi 
Mabunda Valley, gaining several victories over Maritela’s people after 
some hard-fought battles. Determined to establish his rule in this 
country he remained in the Barotzi Valley, and when Maritela died 
shortly afterwards was gladly hailed as king by all the tribes occupying 
the valley, to whom he gave the collective name of Makololo. Now 
peace was established, Sibotwana returned to the Chobe and built the 
town of Linyanti, from whence he exercised his rule, assisted by some 
of his own people who came from Basutoland with him, and whom he 
distributed throughout the valley as subordinate chiefs. 
Before Sibotwana built the town of Linyanti, and while he was 
still resident in the Barotzi Valley, a large army of Matabele, sent by 
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