Bechuana

The name Bechuana seems derived from the word Chuana — alike, or equal — with the personal pronoun Ba (they) prefixed, and therefore means fellows or equals.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Having tarried for three months at the head station at Kuruman, and taken to wife a daughter of the well-known missionary Mr. Moffat, he pushed still farther into the country, and attached himself to the band of Sechele, chief of the Bakwains, or “Alligators”, a Bechuana tribe.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

This did not arise from the crime of cattle-stealing; for that crime, so common among the Caffres, was never charged against his tribe, nor, indeed, against any Bechuana tribe.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Bechuana tribes, who had just escaped the hard sway of that cruel chieftain.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

The Bakalahari are traditionally reported to be the oldest of the Bechuana tribes, and they are said to have possessed enormous herds of the large horned cattle mentioned by Bruce, until they were despoiled of them and driven into the Desert by a fresh migration of their own nation.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Still worse was the conduct of Boers who had pushed their way into the Bechuana country.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Mr. Moffat has translated the whole Bible into the language of the Bechuana, and has diligently studied this tongue for the last forty-four-years; and, though knowing far more of the language than any of the natives who have been reared on the Mission-station of

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

Mr. Moffat had translated the Bible into the Bechuana language, which he had reduced to writing, and Sechele set himself to learn to read, with so much assiduity that he began to grow corpulent from lack of his accustomed exercise.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Several tribes of Bechuana and Basutu, fleeing from the Zulu or Matebele chief Moselekatse reached the Zambesi above the Falls.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

A great variety of fortune followed him in the northern part of the Bechuana country; twice he lost all his cattle by the attacks of the Matabele, but always kept his people together, and retook more than he lost.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004