The Basuto is a splendid fellow-with a desperately keen appreciation of his personal freedom under the Colonial Office Administration. From Wordnik.com. [The Empire in Africa and the Middle East] Reference
Bamakakana, Matlapatlapa, etc. The Bakoni farther north than the Basuto are the Batlou, Baperi. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
The Basuto under Moshesh are equally fond of cultivating the soil. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Brabant hugged the Basuto border, and swept the land clean of everything hostile. From Wordnik.com. [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference
I christened him Kim, after Kipling's hero, for his Basuto name is unpronounceable. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
Basuto pony, and of course tumbles off now and then; but he does not mind it in the least. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
The Basuto scouts were magnificent in the open, but in the cover they were again at fault. From Wordnik.com. [Prester John] Reference
A Basuto appeared, and, awed by my appearance, went off in a hurry to see to the schimmel. From Wordnik.com. [Prester John] Reference
And after I told my Basuto boy to pack my bag, I glanced again at the list von Wedel had given me. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
She remembered hearing that the children had been always minded by an educated old Basuto woman called. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
We moved onward to Thaba Nchu, Brabant keeping well away towards the Basuto border with his flying column. From Wordnik.com. [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference
The nucleus of the whole were Basuto, who came with Sebituane from a comparatively cold and hilly region in the south. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
They are called Marimo and Mayabathu, men-eaters, by the rest of the Basuto, who have various subdivisions, as Makatla. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
A treaty with Moshoeshoe, powerful leader of the Basuto, led to the recognition of Basutoland under British protection. From Wordnik.com. [1820-30] Reference
Ngcipe was among 30 members of the African National Congress and 12 Basuto masacred in the raid in Maseru on the night of. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Mittelstrasse, and Kim, who had been transformed from a Basuto boy into an efficient man servant, looked after my comforts. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
Main Drift, where the police were fewer, he succeeded; but he had not gone far till he was discovered by the Basuto scouts. From Wordnik.com. [Prester John] Reference
Every Basuto employed on the line here has returned to his tribe, one saying: "Be sure we shall not harm our mother the Queen.". From Wordnik.com. [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference
For this pusillanimous policy there were several reasons, the greatest being a fear of a Basuto rising and the trouble it would entail. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
Away past our right flank Wepener range was plainly visible in the clear morning light, and just behind Wepener lay the Basuto border, with its fringe of mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference
But nowhere have I seen a whole male population ride as these Basuto warriors ride, and the best use England can make of them is to turn them into mounted infantry. From Wordnik.com. [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference
The principal event in the Orange Free State during that period was a three years 'exhaustive war with the Basuto nation, which ended in the latter's defeat in 1867. From Wordnik.com. [Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked] Reference
"Basuto pony," for which long prices are given today. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer] Reference
Government of Colony with Basuto war nearly £4,000,000. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Gordon, Volume II] Reference
Government upon the settlement of the Basuto question in May and. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Gordon, Volume II] Reference
And, still more that he was unaware of the utterly discreditable Basuto incident, with respect to which. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902] Reference
The increasing urgency of the Basuto question induced the Cape Government to send a message by telegraph to. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Gordon, Volume II] Reference
So next day I embarked on board the Basuto, and in the afternoon of the day following reached my destination. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer] Reference
Mafuta, the Basuto nyanga, had shown me in the vision wherein I had been permitted a brief glimpse of Nell Lestrange. From Wordnik.com. [Through Veld and Forest An African Story] Reference
That war had gone on for two years without result, and the total cost of the Basuto question had been four millions sterling when. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Gordon, Volume II] Reference
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