The Basutos : or, twenty-three years in South Africa (1861)
Casalis, Eugène Arnaud, b. 1812 · London, J. Nisbet · leaf 181
something far more ample in its dimensions, which belongs to the other sex, and is worn like a petti- coat, coming down to the knees. We must add, in jus- tice to the Bechuanas, that if modesty is confined within too narrow limits among them, these limits are at least as sacred with them as ours… … THE SESSIOU. We shall find more pleasure in following the gradual enlargement of this enormous basket, which rises full and round, finally presenting the form of a globe, having the two poles slightly flattened. Its texture is not firm,
Sotho (African people)
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