Gazetteer for Basutoland: An invaluable reference work for geographical place names (with longitude and latitude) of Lesotho, the Free State and adjacent areas of South …
Drawing of Eugene Casalis (Mahloana-Mats’oana), the advisor and friend of Moshoeshoe, as a young man in France before setting out for Southern Africa. He served …
Leselinyana newspaper, dated February 1878, with a letter from Asser Sehahabane, a Mosotho evangelist who was then working to establish a mission in Bonyai (Zimbabwe). …
Baptismal Register for Thaba-Bosiu Parish, recording the baptism of the famous prophetess Anna Mantsopa (Manshupa) #349 on 13 March 1870, the day that Moshoeshoe was …
Drawing of Joshua Nau Makoanyane, Moshoeshoe’s close friend and military commander, made in 1845 by François Maeder. Maeder’s drawings are among the first images that …
Leeto la Mokreste (Pilgrim’s Progress), translated into Sesotho by Adolphe Mabille and published in 1872. This classic Christian text is said to have been one …
Large clear or white quartz crystals (mahakoe in Sesotho) are commonly found in seams in the basalt formations in the mountains of Lesotho. Quartz, whether …
A drawing of Thaba-Bosiu, the citadel of Moshoeshoe the Great, as it appeared in 1845. Thaba-Bosiu was occupied by Moshoeshoe and his followers from 1824 …
Femur (thigh bone) of a Prosauropod dinosaur, excavated at Maphutseng, Mohale’s Hoek District. It is one of hundreds of fossilised bones unearthed by Francois Ellenberger …
