3. The Tswana people-African
mixed farmers-lived
in large
townships. This scene is in Dirhakong (near modern Kuruman),
which was the seat of the Tlhaping chiefdom. William Burchell, a
British naturalist-artist, spent several weeks there in 1812..
The town, he said, occupied "the greater part of a plain of about two
miles in diameter." Burchell estimated that it had five thousand
inhabitants or more.
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