"They would not sell him any powder, though they had plenty; so he compelled them to give it and the horse for nothing.

He would not deny the extortion to me; that would be 'boherehere' (swindling)." He thus thought extortion better than swindling.

I could not detect any difference in the morality of the two transactions, but Sekomi's ideas of honesty are the lowest I have met with in any Bechuana chief, and this instance is mentioned as the only approach to demanding payment for leave to pass that I have met with in the south.

In all other cases the difficulty has been to get a chief to give us men to show the way, and the payment has only been for guides.

Englishmen have always very properly avoided giving that idea to the native mind which we shall hereafter find prove troublesome, that payment ought to be made for passage through a country.
All the Bechuana and Caffre tribes south of the Zambesi practice circumcision ('boguera'), but the rites observed are carefully concealed.