So generally is the duty admitted, that one of the most cogent arguments for polygamy is that a respectable man with only one wife could not entertain strangers as he ought.

This reason has especial weight where the women are the chief cultivators of the soil, and have the control over the corn, as at Kolobeng.

The poor, however, who have no friends, often suffer much hunger, and the very kind attention Sebituane lavished on all such was one of the reasons of his great popularity in the country.
The Makololo cultivate a large extent of land around their villages.
Those of them who are real Basutos still retain the habits of that tribe, and may be seen going out with their wives with their hoes in hand--a state of things never witnessed at Kolobeng, or among any other Bechuana or Caffre tribe.

The great chief Moshesh affords an example to his people annually by not only taking the hoe in hand, but working hard with it on certain public occasions.

His Basutos are of the same family with the Makololo to whom I refer.