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Updated: June 9, 2025
The place where we first settled with the Bakwains is called Chonuane, and it happened to be visited, during the first year of our residence there, by one of those droughts which occur from time to time in even the most favored districts of Africa. The belief in the gift or power of RAIN-MAKING is one of the most deeply-rooted articles of faith in this country.
I attached myself to the tribe called Bakuena or Bakwains, the chief of which, named Sechele, was then living with his people at a place called Shokuane. I was from the first struck by his intelligence, and by the marked manner in which we both felt drawn to each other.
The Boers Their Treatment of the Natives Seizure of native Children for Slaves English Traders Alarm of the Boers Native Espionage The Tale of the Cannon The Boers threaten Sechele In violation of Treaty, they stop English Traders and expel Missionaries They attack the Bakwains Their Mode of Fighting The Natives killed and the School-children carried into Slavery Destruction of English Property African Housebuilding and Housekeeping Mode of Spending the Day Scarcity of Food Locusts Edible Frogs Scavenger Beetle Continued Hostility of the Boers The Journey north Preparations Fellow-travelers The Kalahari Desert Vegetation Watermelons The Inhabitants The Bushmen Their nomad Mode of Life Appearance The Bakalahari Their Love for Agriculture and for domestic Animals Timid Character Mode of obtaining Water Female Water-suckers The Desert Water hidden.
The Bakwains at Kolobeng had the spectacle of various tribes enslaved before their eyes the Bakatla, the Batlokua, the Bahukeng, the Bamosetla, and two other tribes of Bakwains were all groaning under the oppression of unrequited labor.
The panic was tremendous, and the rush like that from a theatre on fire, while the Makololo used their javelins on the terrified Bakwains with a dexterity which they alone can employ. Sebituane had given orders to his men to spare the sons of the chief; and one of them, meeting Sechele, put him in ward by giving him such a blow on the head with a club as to render him insensible.
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