Barotse
Britishnoun
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a member of a Negroid people of central Africa living chiefly in SW Zambia
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the language spoken by this people; Lozi
Example Sentences
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The Barotse leaders, it seemed, disliked federation, not because it brought too little freedom to their people, but because it might bring too much.
From Time Magazine Archive
We object to this act," said the Barotse, "because it did not come to us through our Paramount Chief, or even through the resident commissioner.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the men who had come with him from the Barotse country to Loanda had to return, and Livingstone knew that they were quite unable to perform the journey without him.
From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by Blaikie, William Garden
When Livingstone and Sekelétu had gone about sixty miles on the way to the Barotse, they encountered Mpepe, Sekelétu's half-brother and secret rival.
From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by Blaikie, William Garden
The Makololo are unable to swim, and, a canoe being upset, one of the party, an old doctor, was lost, while the Barotse canoe-men easily saved themselves by swimming.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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