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Seven Years in South Africa.

the various members of the royal family, Shoshong with its 30,000 inhabitants held the highest rank of any own throughout the six Bechuana countries, (viz. those of the Batlapins, Barolongs, Banquaketse, Bakuenas, and the eastern and western Bamangwatos) where the strength of the ruling power is

A Bamangwato boy.
A Bamangwato boy.

A BAMANGWATO BOY.

usually centred in their capital for the time being. The population of Shoshong is now scarcely a fifth part of what it formerly was, a falling-off to be attributed to Sekhomo, who was king of the eastern Bamangwatos at the time of my first visit; not only was he the promoter of the civil war, which cost the