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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

CHAPTER 9
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As the Makololo are very fond of improving the breed of their domestic animals, they were much pleased with my selection.

I endeavored to bring the bull, in performance of a promise made to Sebituane before he died.

Admiring a calf which we had with us, he proposed to give me a cow for it, which in the native estimation was offering three times its value.

I presented it to him at once, and promised to bring him another and a better one.

Sekeletu was much gratified by my attempt to keep my word given to his father.
They have two breeds of cattle among them.


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