The Bakoni Farther North Than The Basuto Are The Batlou, Baperi, Bapo,
And Another Tribe Of Bakuena, Bamosetla, Bamapela Or Balaka, Babiriri,
Bapiri, Bahukeng, Batlokua, Baakhahela, Etc., Etc.; The Whole Of Which Tribes
Are Favored 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 slothful 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 labor of hoeing, driving away birds, reaping, and winnowing,
falls to the willing 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 plows and oxen
instead of the hoe.
3d. The Bakalahari, or western branch of the Bechuana family,
consists of Barolong, Bahurutse, Bakuena, Bangwaketse,
Bakaa, Bamangwato, Bakurutse, Batauana, Bamatlaro, and Batlapi.
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-favored tribes
in the interior to be entirely owing to their own greater wisdom
and more intellectual development.
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