The chief sells it only with the approbation of his counselors, and the proceeds are distributed in open day among the people as before.

He has the choice of every thing; but if he is not more liberal to others than to himself, he loses in popularity.

I have known instances in this and other tribes in which individuals aggrieved, because they had been overlooked, fled to other chiefs.

One discontented person, having fled to Lechulatebe, was encouraged to go to a village of the Bapalleng, on the River Cho or Tso, and abstracted the tribute of ivory thence which ought to have come to Sekeletu.

This theft enraged the whole of the Makololo, because they all felt it to be a personal loss.