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BECHUANA

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 603 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BECHUANA , a See also:

South See also:African See also:people, forming a See also:branch of the See also:great See also:Bantu-See also:Negroid See also:family. They occupy not only See also:Bechuanaland, to which they have given their name, and See also:Basutoland, but are the most numerous native See also:race in the See also:Orange See also:River See also:Colony and in the western and See also:northern districts of the See also:Transvaal. It seems certain that they reached their See also:present See also:home later than the Zulu-Xosa [Kaffir] peoples who came down the See also:east See also:coast of the See also:continent, but it is probable that they started on their southward See also:journey before the latter.

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