The Basutos : or, twenty-three years in South Africa (1861)
Casalis, Eugène Arnaud, b. 1812 · London, J. Nisbet · leaf 186
142 THE BASUTOS. sex is not allowed to enter, and visit the small courts adjoining the huts. Nowhere does the preparation of the food and the general comfort of the family depend more exclusively upon woman than in this country. This arises entirely from the exaggerated ideas of the natives as to… … WOMAN GRINDING CORN. geously the heavy burden which falls to their lot. Every morning, before break of day, they may be seen fetching the water necessary for the consumption of the dayy after which they have to grind the corn by a very laborious process, somewhat resembling that of our chocolate-…
Sotho (African people)
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