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These people were usually termed Mantatees or Makatees, from the supposition that they were all subjects of Ma Ntatisi.
The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs 1896
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Rumours had also been current at intervals, for more than a year past, of strange and terrible doings by a fierce and numerous people, called the Mantatees, who were advancing from the eastward.
Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman David J. Deane
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"The Mantatees are a tall, robust people, in features resembling the Bechuanas; the dress, consisting of prepared ox-hides, hanging doubly over their shoulders.
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"The assemblage of tribes known as the Mantatees or Invaders, according to the best authorities we can collect, inhabited the countries to the westward of the Zoolu territory, in the same latitude, which is that of Delagoa Bay.
The Mission; or Scenes in Africa Frederick Marryat 1820
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Mantatees that threatened to invade the colony. 15 But for that brave Christian man,
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These volunteers were highly esteemed among the Dutch, under the name of Mantatees.
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Aztecs were superior to these Mantatees, or that the force of Cortéz was inferior in equipment to the hundred unwarlike Griquas whose
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The Mantatees rushed forward with a terrible howl, throwing their war clubs and javelins.
Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman David J. Deane
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Just as they were about to start, however, they ascertained from two natives that the Mantatees had attacked the
Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman David J. Deane
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Seeing the savage ferocity of the Bechuanas in killing the inoffensive women and children for the sake of a few paltry rings, or to boast that they had killed some of the Mantatees, I turned my attention to these objects of pity, who were flying in consternation in all directions.
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