21/02/2017
In his 1894 book titled "In the Lesuto", Canon Widdicombe, an Anglican Church Missionary, wrote:
"No wonder the Mosuto loves his country. It is, indeed, a fascinating land - a land of lofty mountains and smiling plains, where the grass is often as green as in England or Ireland; a land of rushing rivers, babbling brooks, and flowing fountains; of beetling crags and bewitching waterfalls - one (the Maletsunyane) being nearly 700 feet in height. It is the natural home and abiding place of countless flocks and herds, signs to the native of peace and plenty; where often and often when the rest of South Africa is parched and dried with drought, there is "a sound as of an abundance of rain" when the great thunder-clouds floating over the Drakensbergen from the Indian ocean, big black with pent-up moisture, bursts, and shower their welcome freight upon the waiting, grateful earth..." THIS IS MOSTLY AS TRUE TODAY AS IT WAS THOSE MANY YEARS AGO!
