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After a lifetime of futile warring, peace-loving Moshesh, founder of the Basuto nation, wrote to Queen Victoria in 1868: "I am glad that my people have been allowed to rest and live in the large folds of the blanket of England. My country is your blanket, O Queen, and my people are the lice...
Last week at a royal pitso in Maseru, capital of South Africa's craggy, mountainous Basutoland, Victoria's great-grandson George VI celebrated Moshoeshoe Day (Moshesh's anniversary) by pinning medals on the dazzling, crocodile-and-lion-adorned blankets of a host...
Basuto warriors. "You came to my assistance," he said, "when I was beset by many and powerful enemies." "Realeboah morena!" (We are glad to see you, Lord!) shouted the Basuto men, while their women hung in the background howling in wild, horselike whinnies. As four "Sons of Moshesh"-descendants of the "Basuto Moses"-stood proudly by, regal Mantsebo Seeiso, "wife of the first hut" and regent for her ten-year-old nephew chief, greeted King George. "We do not wish to be separated from you and your just Government in any manner," she said...
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