Maize or Indian corn [Zea mais, Kaffir “Umbilo”] which the Kaffir somewhat recently used for food in addition to their milk and flesh diet and millet a Kaffir corn [Hotcus sorghum “Mabele”] from which they still make “beer” were grown and consumed to a much greater extent by the Fingoes. These refugees (ama-mfengu i.e. wanderers) remnants of the ama-Bele, ama-Zizi and aba-Mbo who formerly occupied the territory now comprising Natal, from which they were driven some seventy or eighty years ago by Tshaka show a much greater capacity for agricultural pursuits. Besides growing extensive patches of mealies and millet they cultivated pumpkins, and some of them the imphie, or wild sugar cane [H. Saccharatum.] Moreover in addition to cattle and poultry they reared sheep and a small kind of goat. A softer climate and soil more fruitful than are characteristic of Kaffraria south of the Kei River most likely induced these classes to resort to avocations more agricultural than those of the savage Xosa and Tembu tribes. There is one tribe mentioned by Dr. Hewat to which I have not yet referred, and that is the Basuto. The Basuto speak a dialect so distinct from that of the Kaffir that individuals of these tribes have as much difficulty in understanding each other as a Dutchman would have in understanding a German. They are a branch of the Bechuana group of Bantu which comprises the Barotse, Bamangwato, Batlapin, Barolong and other tribes. Unlike most of these which are tribes of pure descent ruled by a succession of hereditary chiefs the Basuto is composed of fragments of many fugitive peoples who escaped from the armies of Tshaka and Unsilikazi (Moselekatze) and had taken refuge in the mountainous regions of the Drakensberg and Maluti, and were welded together into a nation by Moshesh. This chief like Romulus of old created a sanctuary for all outcasts and broken men and by the judicious use of war and diplomacy not only preserved an independence against the threats and attacks of neighbouring tribes but dexterously held his own against both Boer and British. By his astute rule for which since his death British control has gradually been substituted, a country which was once a mere colluvies gentium is now as compared with other native territories a well ordered state, the home of a homogeneous population forward in the arts of peace and formidable in war. The slopes of the Maluti and the basin of the Caledon are depastured by cattle or covered with wheat or other grain owned by a peasantry each member of which is a good customer to the Colonial trader and possesses his pony, his saddle and his rifle.