Basutoland: Its Legends And Customs
by Minnie Martin
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About this eBook
- Author
- Martin, Minnie
- Title
- Basutoland: Its Legends and Customs
- Credits
- Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DT: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Africa
- Subject
- Sotho (African people)
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 44456
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44456
- Release Date
- December 17, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.BASUTOLAND:
- 2.CONTENTS.
- 3.Dedication.
- 4.CHAPTER I. OUTLINE OF BASUTO HISTORY—MOSHESHUE—LETSIE—LEROTHOLI—SCENERY—CLIMATE.
- 5.CHAPTER II. APPEARANCE OF BASUTO—ALBINOS—NATIVE VILLAGES—HUTS—MANNER OF LIVING—DRESS—ORNAMENTS.
- 6.CHAPTER III. MANNER OF CULTIVATING THE SOIL—GRAIN—HARVEST-FOOD—MANNER OF EATING—RESOURCES OF THE COUNTRY—IMPORTS—STATUS OF WOMEN—CHILDREN—RELIGIOUS CUSTOMS—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS—HEATHEN SCHOOLS—AMUSEMENTS.
- 7.CHAPTER IV. CHIEF WARS—MOROSI—DEATH OF MOLAPO—INFLUENCE OF THE MISSIONARIES—COLONEL GRIFFETH—GENERAL GORDON—1843 TO PRESENT TIME—GOVERNMENT HUT TAX—MISSION SOCIETIES.
- 8.CHAPTER V. THABA BOSIGO—CANNIBALS—THEIR MANNER OF CAPTURING AND DESTROYING THEIR VICTIMS—SUPERSTITIONS—LAND TENURE.
- 9.CHAPTER VI. MARRIAGE CUSTOMS—DEATH CUSTOMS.
- 10.CHAPTER VII. BIRTH CUSTOMS—EDUCATION—INTELLECT—CHARACTER—NEWS-CARRIERS.
- 11.CHAPTER VIII. NATIVE DOCTORS—THOKOLOSI—MOLOI—WARFARE—PROVERBS.
- 12.CHAPTER IX. BOERS AND BASUTO.
- 13.CHAPTER X. THE STORY OF TAKANE.
- 14.CHAPTER XI. HOW KHOSI CHOSE A WIFE.
- 15.CHAPTER XII. THE VILLAGE MAIDEN AND THE CANNIBAL.
- 16.CHAPTER XIII. MORONGOE THE SNAKE.
- 17.CHAPTER XIV. MORENA-Y-A-LETSATSI, OR THE SUN CHIEF.
- 18.CHAPTER XV. HOW RA-MOLO BECAME A SNAKE.
- 19.CHAPTER XVI. LELIMO AND THE MAGIC CAP.
- 20.CHAPTER XVII. THE CHIEF AND THE TIGERS.
- 21.CHAPTER XVIII. THE MAID AND HER SNAKE-LOVER.
- 22.CHAPTER XIX. THE FAMINE.
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