Bechuanas

The acme of respectability among the Bechuanas is the possession of cattle and a wagon.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

South Africa”, was busily engaged in carrying through the press, with which his station is furnished, the Bible in the language of the Bechuanas, which is called Sichuana.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

"The acme of respectability among the Bechuanas is the possession of cattle and a wagon.

Social relations in our Southern States, 1860

On crossing the Orange River we come into independent territory inhabited by Griquas and Bechuanas.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Otto von Guerrike is said, by Baron Humboldt, to have been the first that ever observed this effect in Europe, but the phenomenon had been familiar to the Bechuanas for ages.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

The hoe in use has a handle of four feet in length, and the iron part is exactly of the same form as that in the country of the Bechuanas.

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

A curious custom, not to be found among the Bechuanas, prevails among the black tribes beyond them.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

This was pleasing, for I had been accustomed to the Bechuanas presenting a miserable goat, with the pompous exclamation, “Behold an ox!”

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

I wished him to take charge of a packet of letters for England, to be forwarded when, as is the custom of the Bamangwato, the Bechuanas come hither in search of skins and food among the Bushmen; but he could not be made to comprehend that there was no danger in the consignment.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

The Bechuanas generally were in the same condition, until Europeans came among them and imparted the idea of riding.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004