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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 1014 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SHOSHONG , a See also:

TOWN

town in the See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

PROTECTORATE

protectorate of See also:

BECHUANALAND (a name given from its inhabitants, the Bechuana, q.v.)

Bechuanaland, formerly the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

settlement of the eastern Bamangwato. It is about 200 M. N.N.E. of See also:

MAFEKING

Mafeking and 30 M. N. of Shoshong Road Station on the Cape Town-See also:

BULAWAYO

Bulawayo railway. The town is situated 3000 ft. above the See also:

sea in the valley of the Shoshong, an intermittent tributary of the See also:

LIMPOPO, or CROCODILE

Limpopo. The site was origin-ally chosen as the headquarters of the Bamangwato as being easily defensible against the See also:

MATABELE (" vanishing " or " hidden " people, so called from their appearance in battle, hidden behind enormous oxhide shields)

Matabele. At the See also:

time of the See also:

DECLARATION (from Lat. declarare, to make fully clear, clams)

declaration of a British protectorate in 1885 Shoshong had 20,000 to 30,000 inhabitants, including about twenty Europeans. Being the See also:

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of See also:

trade routes from See also:

south and See also:

north it was of considerable importance to See also:

early explorers and traders in South-Central See also:

Africa, and a See also:

MISSION

mission station of the See also:

LONDON

London Missionary Society (preceded for many years by a station of the Hermannsburg Lutheran Missionary Society) was founded here in 1862. Owing, however, to the scarcity of See also:

WATER

water at Shoshong, Khama, the chief of the Bamangwato, and most of his followers removed about 1890 to Palapye—So m. N.E. of Shoshong—and later to Serowe to the north-See also:

west of Palapye. Like Shoshong, these places are built in valleys of tributaries of the Limpopo. Shoshong was not entirely deserted and has a See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population of about 800 (See BECHUANALAND).

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