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[1824 settled on the eastern bank of the Tsomo. Between this party of wanderers and the Galeka branch of the Xosas there was a close alliance ever since Kawuta, father of Hintsa, had taken to wife a daughter of Tshatshu, chief of those people.

The Tembus were similar in every respect to the Xosas, except that they had a smaller mixture of Hottentot blood in their veins. The two tribes, though each formed of the fragments of others welded together in some way now forgotten, in the not very remote past were one people, and some of their antiquaries give the name of a chief from whom the ruling families of both are descended, but others dispute the genealogy beyond Tembu. The line from him is agreed upon by all, and is as follows:

Tembu Bomoyi Cedwini Toyi Xekwa Dunakazi Hala Dungwana Diya Ngungu Nadibi Ntande 1 Langa Tato Manusi Kono Diomo Tukwa Bejula Zondwa J Ndaba Koba Nene Tshatshu Kwesha Vusani Bawana } Darala Umtirara Mapasa Siyabulala Gangelizwe, Matauzima, Sikungati, Umfanta Gongubele Dalindyebo