BASUTOLAND:

First Edition: 174 pages, maroon cloth gilt on spine, uncut edges, with bookplate of Nicholas M. Williams Memorial, Ethnological Collection, Boston College Library and stamps, a very good copy.

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography Volume 1 page 988. Mrs. Martin, who was the wife of a British official in Basutoland, went to live in the country in 1891, and soon became greatly interested in the natives, making a study of the language, visiting the different villages, and seeing as much as possible of the inner life of the people. The volume contains a short sketch of " Basuto History from the middle of the eighteenth century," when the country was ruled by a chief named Tokoana Makhautha (who was the grandfather of the celebrated chief Moshesh), down to the commencement of the twentieth century. There is an account of the marriage, birth, and death customs of the race, together with notes on the folklore, and on the character and intellect of the natives, their progress in education and civilisation, and their methods of cultivation. A chapter is devoted to the relations which existed between the Boers and Basutos, and many details are afforded of the cruelties alleged to have been perpetrated by the former on the latter.