. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean. strong affection was their emancipation by the decreeof Sebituane, all are children of the chief. The Makalaka cultivate the Holcus sorghum, or dura, as theprincipal grain, with maize, two kinds of beans, ground-nuts{Arachis hypogoea), pumpkins, water-melons, and depend for success entirely upon rain. Those wh
. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean. strong affection was their emancipation by the decreeof Sebituane, all are children of the chief. The Makalaka cultivate the Holcus sorghum, or dura, as theprincipal grain, with maize, two kinds of beans, ground-nuts{Arachis hypogoea), pumpkins, water-melons, and depend for success entirely upon rain. Those who live inthe Barotse valley cultivate in addition the sugar-cane, sweet-potato, and manioc (Jatropha manihot). The climate there, how-ever, is warmer than at Linyanti, and the Makalaka increase thefertility of their gardens by rude attempts at artificial instrument of culture over all this region is a hoe, theiron of which the Batoka and Banyeti obtain from the ore bysmelting. The amount of iron which they produce annuallymay be understood, when it is known that most of the hoes inuse at Linyanti are the tribute imposed on the smiths of thosesubject tribes. Sekeletu receives tribute from a great number of tribes in 198 WARLIKE DEMONSTRATION. Chap. A Batoka hoe. corn or dura, ground-nuts, hoes, spears, honey, canoes, paddles,wooden vessels, tobacco, mutokuane [Cannabis sativa), variouswild fruits (dried), prepared skins, and ivory. When thesearticles are brought into the kotla, Sekeletu has the honour ofdividing them among the loungers who usually congregate small portion only is reserved for himself. The ivory belongsnominally to him too, but tins is simply a way of making a fairdistribution of the profits. The chief sells it only with theapprobation of Ins counsellors, and the proceeds are distri-buted in open day among the people as before. He has thechoice of everytlung; but if he is not more liberal to othersthan to himself, he loses in popularity
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