"I believe it was some fellow in the Basuto War," he said, prevaricating with peculiar awkwardness.
Now the Christian schools of Basuto number thousands of pupils.
It is not always healthy to adopt the latter plan, especially if your "boy" happens to be a Basuto or a Zulu.
The other cattle are driven leisurely along, the herds lustily singing the Basuto wedding song.
Two thousand Basuto warriors had been killed, cattle had been carried off, native homes had been broken up and crops destroyed.