The wife of a colonial official arrived in Basutoland in 1891, learned Sesotho, and set down what she saw and was told. She covers the history of Moshoeshoe and his successors, village life and farming, the chiefs’ wars, the cannibal stories of Thaba Bosiu, and the customs of marriage, death, birth and schooling, along with Sotho legends.
A valuable early record of Lesotho, though its views of the Basotho are those of a British colonist around 1900. Download the free EPUB.