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
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

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 O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

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 (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade routes from See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south and See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north it was of considerable importance to See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early explorers and traders in South-Central See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

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
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

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) .